Griffiths v. Powers

This is an action of contract against the executor of the will of an attorney at law. The testator died in 1911. Having collected money for a client named Mary E. Queenie, he unreasonably refused after demand made in 1907 to pay over to her a balance due of $50. The plaintiff is her assignee. The question is the rate of interest to which the plaintiff is entitled. This depends upon the.meaning and effect of R. L. c. 165, § 49, which provides that an attorney at law who after demand unreasonably *170refuses to pay over money collected for a client “shall forfeit to such client five times the…