Howland v. Bartlett
Supreme Court of Georgia
Attorney and client. Evidence. Charge of court. ■Verdict. Before Judge Miller. Bibb superior court. November term, 1890. On the trial of a rule brought by W. T. Bartlett and Mrs. S. E. Long against J. C. Howland as an attorney at law, the following facts appeared: He was employed by W. T. Bartlett, for himself and his sisters, Mrs. Long and Mrs. Jennings, to bring suit in Sumter county to recover their interest in certain land there, they claiming such interest under the…
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Attorney and client. Evidence. Charge of court. ■Verdict. Before Judge Miller. Bibb superior court. November term, 1890. On the trial of a rule brought by W. T. Bartlett and Mrs. S. E. Long against J. C. Howland as an attorney at law, the following facts appeared: He was employed by W. T. Bartlett, for himself and his sisters, Mrs. Long and Mrs. Jennings, to bring suit in Sumter county to recover their interest in certain land there, they claiming such interest under the will of Abner Bartlett, probated August 25th, 1848. Howland filed a petition for partition, which was resisted by C. L.…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. An attorney having collected a fund in which three clients were jointly and equally interested, upon a rule brought against him by two of them, evidence was admissible in favor of the movants that he paid to the third a sum almost equal to that now claimed of him by each of the other two. A payment made by a designated individual at his request would count for the same as if made directly by himself. Yielding to the demand of a client to avoid being ruled for the money does not make the transaction incompetent evidence, under section 3789 of the code, as an…
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