Lecatt v. Sallee
Supreme Court of Alabama
THE QUESTION IN THIS CAUSE. In respect to the right of an attorney or counsellor, to make new contracts with the client, for compensation, after retainer. This was a bill in Chancery, filed in the Mobile Circuit Court, by Littleton Lecatt; the object of which was to enjoin a judgment obtained against him, by the defendant in error.
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THE QUESTION IN THIS CAUSE. In respect to the right of an attorney or counsellor, to make new contracts with the client, for compensation, after retainer. This was a bill in Chancery, filed in the Mobile Circuit Court, by Littleton Lecatt; the object of which was to enjoin a judgment obtained against him, by the defendant in error. The bill stated, that on or about the seventeenth day of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, the complainant engaged the defendant to prosecute his claim to certain estates, to which he was entitled, by courtesy, in the city of Mobile. That, in consideration…
1Opinion of the CourtHopkins, J.
The plaintiff in error filed the bill in this case, on the Chancery side of the Circuit Court of Mobile county, for an injunction and relief against a judgment at law, in favor of the defendant, and states, that in 1825, he employed the defendant, who was an attorney and counsellor at law, to institute and prosecute suits for several lots of land in the city of Mobile, to which the defendant had a claim. That, in consideration of the services to be rendered, by the defendant, the complainant gave him his note for eight thousand dollars, subject to conditions expressed in an agreement, signed…
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