Aiken v. National Fire Safety Counsellors

Seitz, Chancellor:

This involves the strange business of an attorney disclaiming authority to settle the claims of over one hundred plaintiffs after he clearly purported to do so in open court.

Some 180 plaintiffs (husbands and wives) brought this action seeking to rescind contracts under which the defendant, National Fire Safety Counsellors, installed fire detection devices in their homes. Plaintiffs alleged fraud and sought to have their notes cancelled. Prior to the commencement of this action National Fire Safety Coun-sellors had sold the notes obtained from most plaintiffs to a finance…