Hitchings v. . Van Brunt

The agreement upon which this action is brought is one between an attorney and his client, providing for a large compensation upon the success of the former in conducting a cause, where the client was assured, that the case was one which not only stood very strong for him, but in which he must succeed. In considering such a transaction, it may not, perhaps, be necessary to go to the extreme length of some of the cases which hold, that, where a security is thus taken, the absolute presumption of unfairness arises, wherever the relation of counsel and client exists. (Evans v. Ellis, 5 Denio,…