Bean v. Quimby
Superior Court of New Hampshire
This was a writ of error, brought to reverse a judgment of the court of common pleas. The original action was assumpsit upon an account annexed to the writ brought by Quimby against Bean, before a justice of the peace, and carried to the court of common pleas by appeal, and there tried upon the general issue.
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This was a writ of error, brought to reverse a judgment of the court of common pleas. The original action was assumpsit upon an account annexed to the writ brought by Quimby against Bean, before a justice of the peace, and carried to the court of common pleas by appeal, and there tried upon the general issue. It appeared by the bill of exceptions which had been filed in the cause, that upon the trial in the common pleas, Quimby, the original plaintiff, offered in evidence the deposition of one Gilman Sawyer, to the admission of which Bean objected, and proved that the deposition was taken by…
1Opinion of the Court
By the court.
We shall, in the first place, consider the question whether Nichols was bound, or could be permitted, to disclose communications which had been made to him by the defendant in error, fox* the purpose of enabling him to manage the cause ? w
It is contended on behalf of the plaintiff in error, that the privilege of clients to have their communications to counsel kept secret extends only to communications made to professional men and not to those made to any other description of persons whom they may choose to employ to manage a cause. But we are inclined to think that the law is not…
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