Cochran v. Henry

Citations

• 107 Miss. 233
• 65 So. 213

Syllabus

<p>1. Attorney and Client. Wills. Contracts. Lien. Right to probate will. Settlement of lawsuit.</p> <p>Where the sole beneficiary under an unprobated will contracted with an attorney for services for its probate, and obligated herself to pay to the attorney one-half of whatever might be decreed to be the interest of the beneficiary under such will and bargains, sells, assigns, transfers, and sets over to the attorney one-half of whatever lands, moneys, choses in action, and personal property she may be entitled to receive under a decree of court or settlement such a contract does not give to the attorney a lien on the property under the will, and he does not acquire an interest in the will, and cannot propound it for probate.</p> <p>2. Attorney and Client. Contract. Settlement of lawsuit.</p> <p>A contract between attorney and client, whereby the client binds himself not to compromise or settle a pending or prospective lawsuit, is unenforceable.</p>