Northwest Realty Company v. Perez

These appeals involve the authority of an attorney at law to compromise and settle claims and causes of action in favor of, and those made against, his client. At the time of the employment of John C. Searle to handle their legal affairs, two actions were pending: one by Northwest Realty Company against Perez to replevin the property covered by, and foreclosure of, a conditional sales contract; the other a counter suit by Perez and his wife against Northwest Realty and Reese, its president, for actual and exemplary damages claiming the unlawful conversion of personal property attached and…