Chamberlayne v. Nazro
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for a balance alleged to be due for services rendered by the plaintiff as an attorney at law and for disbursements in behalf of the defendant.
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Contract for a balance alleged to be due for services rendered by the plaintiff as an attorney at law and for disbursements in behalf of the defendant. Writ dated January 3,1902. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Lawton, J. At the close of the evidence the defendant requested the judge to rule: “ 1. An attorney cannot in the same action, act both for his client and himself, when their interests are in conflict. 2. In a conflict of interests, it is the duty of an attorney, while the relationship of attorney and client exists, to serve the interests of his client instead of his…
1Opinion of the Court
Knowlton, 0. J.
At the trial of this case no question of law was raised in regard to the liability of the defendant on the *456merits, but the only legal defence was in the nature of a claim in abatement, that the plaintiff could not maintain his action, because, at the time of bringing it, he was acting as the attorney of the defendant, for whose benefit the action was brought to meet a claim of another person against her. The contention was, in substance, that conceding the liability of the defendant on the merits, the action was brought improperly and without legal authority, because the…
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