Evans v. Brooke

Russell, Chief Justice.

We are of the opinion that the ruling in this case must be controlled by the decision in Davis v. First National Bank of Blakely, 139 Ga. 702 (78 S. E. 190, 46 L. R. A. (N. S.) 750), which case, as this court held, involved a very important question, to wit: the authority of an attorney at law to bind his client by a compromise resulting in a consent decree, in direct opposition to the instructions of his client, with the knowledge of leading counsel for the adverse side of such violation of the instructions. The petition in the Davis case made substantially the same…