Bowers v. Virden

Citations

• 56 Miss. 595

Syllabus

<p>Attobkey anb Client. Attorney purchasing land of former client. Professional relation.</p> <p>Where an attorney was employed, in 1870, to write a will by which a certain tract of land was devised, and was consulted, in 1871, in reference to the collection of the rent of the land, he was not thereby placed in such a professional relation to the client or to the land as to preclude him from purchasing the land at a sale for taxes in 1872. His duty, as to the will, terminated with its preparation; and in advising as to the rent, he incurred no continuing obligation as to the land He could not buy a title outstanding when he wrote the will, nor do any thing inconsistent with his duty in regard to the matters concerning which he was consulted, nor take any advantage of information acquired in his professional employment; but he had the right to buy the paramount title arising from the sale for taxes, which was the act of the State, independent of, and unaffected by, any knowledge or agency on his part.</p>