Currey v. Butcher

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• trial court had appropriately overruled the attorney defendants’ motion for an order requiring the client plaintiff to choose a remedy under either tort or contract
• wife cannot sue husband’s attorney for legal malpractice arising out of land transaction unless attorney knew husband was acting on behalf of wife
• “The relation of attorney and client is a personal relation, and can only be entered into by the consent of both parties”
• the jury should have been instructed that if the plaintiffs husband, rather than the plaintiff, had hired the attorney to do a title search, the plaintiff had no malpractice claim against the attorney
• stating the general “privity” rule

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

30 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• United States National Bank of Oregon v. Davies
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1976-04-15· cited 128×
• Georgetown Realty, Inc. v. Home Insurance
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1992-05-01· cited 123×
• Hale v. Groce
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1987-11-03· cited 111×
• Conway v. Pacific University
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1996-10-11· cited 103×
• McEvoy v. Helikson
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1977-03-31· cited 103×
• Securities-Intermountain, Inc. v. Sunset Fuel Co.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1980-06-03· cited 84×
• Dowell v. Mossberg
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1961-02-21· cited 45×
• McCall v. Porter
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1902-12-15· cited 33×
• Wilder v. Haworth
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1950-01-17· cited 30×
• Bade v. Hibberd
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1908-01-21· cited 26×
• Roberts v. Fearey
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1999-09-15· cited 25×
• Jones v. Emerald Pacific Homes, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2003-07-02· cited 25×
• Creecy v. Joy
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1901-10-21· cited 20×
• Mead v. Legacy Health System
  Oregon Supreme Court· 2012-07-26· cited 16×
• Guy v. Liederbach
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-11-15· cited 15×
• Yoshida's Inc. v. Dunn Carney Allen Higgins & Tongue LLP
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2015-07-22· cited 15×
• Metzker v. Slocum
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1975-06-19· cited 14×
• Tomlinson v. Metropolitan Pediatrics, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2015-12-30· cited 14×
• Davis v. Mitchell
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1914-07-14· cited 10×
• Harding v. Oregon-Idaho Co.
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1910-07-26· cited 9×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Buckley v. Gray
  California Supreme Court· 1895-12-10· cited 53×
• Baker City v. Murphy
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1895-11-04· cited 21×
• Specht v. Allen
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1885-03-24· cited 13×
• Emigh v. Pittsburgh, Ft. W. & C. R.
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana· 1867-11-15· cited 10×
• Dundee Mortgage & Trust Investment Co. v. Hughes
  U.S. Circuit Court· 1884-04-25· cited 7×