Township of North Whitehall v. Keller

The only question in this case is the one involving the power of an attorney at law to give an acquittance in full of his client’s claim against a debtor, on receipt of part only of that claim. "We readily admit all that has been said as to the very general authority conferx’ed xxpon attoxmeys at law in the conduct of suits; their power of reference, to confess judgxnents and coxxtral executions. But there is a limit to this power ; it is created for specific, not general pui’poses. When a claim .is put into the hands of an attorney for collection, without further instruction, it is generally…