Prentiss v. Livingston

The defendants desire to change their attorney ; this they have an undoubted right to do. Any employer may remove his employe at any time, and the only redress the latter has is his remedy for wrongful discharge. It is necessary for me to consider only the legal questions which arise upon this motion, and I do not propose to enter into a discussion of the family differences between the defendants .and their attorney. With these unpleasantries I have nothing, whatever, to do. The attorney has a lien upon the papers which cannot be divested without payment, but he has no lien upon the client,…