Gosnell Ex Rel. Gosnell v. Hilliard

An attorney who is retained generally to conduct a legal proceeding enters into an entire contract to follow the proceeding to its termination, and hence cannot abandon the service of his client without sufficient cause and without giving proper notice of his purpose. Branch v. Walker, 92 N. C., 87; Ladd v. Teague, 126 N. C., 544; Newkirk v. Stevens, 152 N. C., 498; United States v. Curry, 6 How., 106, 12 L. Ed., 363; Tenny v. Berger, 93 N. Y., 524, 45 A. L. R., 263. Weeks states the rule as follows: “An attorney who undertakes the conduct of an action impliedly stipulates to carry it to its…