Lombard v. Lufkin

This is an action of contract to recover a specified sum for legal services in accordance with a written agreement. The defendant pleaded in her answer a general *264denial and an affirmative equitable defence of duress and coercion on the part of the defendant’s attorney other than the plaintiff in procuring her signature to the agreement. The defendant in the course of her testimony was asked whether her other attorney made any threats coercing or otherwise influencing her to sign the agreement. Exception to the exclusion of these inquiries presents the only question. There is no testimony in…