Wade v. Ridley
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. This was an action of replevin for certain live stock and farming utensils alleged to belong to the estate of Horace D. Ridley, the plaintiff’s intestate.
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On exceptions. This was an action of replevin for certain live stock and farming utensils alleged to belong to the estate of Horace D. Ridley, the plaintiff’s intestate. The plaintiff claimed, and introduced testimony tending to show, that in 1884 the defendant conveyed to said Horace D. Ridley his farm in Athens, and that the said Horace D. Ridley mortgaged back the same farm on the same day, the condition of the mortgage being that the said Horace D. Ridley should support the said Henry Ridley and his wife during their lifetime ; and that as a part of the same trade, Henry Ridley sold all…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
When are statements of facts made .to an attorney at law privileged communications, and when are they not privileged? On the one hand, if made to the attorney as an individual merely, and not to him in his professional capacity, they are not privileged. Neither are they privileged if made to him in his professional capacity, in giving him directions to do some particular thing. Hatton v. Robinson, 14 Pick. 416. On the other hand, it is not essential that the relation of attorney and client exist, for the statements may be privileged when the attorney refuses to accept any employment or give…
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