Delbridge v. Beach

Citations

• 66 Wash. 416
• 119 P. 856
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 780

Syllabus

<p>Attorney and Client — Compensation — Contracts — Validity— Public Policy — Promotion of Divorce Suit. A contract for the employment of an attorney is void as against public policy and sound morals, where the attorney was to secure evidence to coerce from a husband the largest possible share of his separate property for the benefit of the wife, and if necessary to begin an action for a divorce for that purpose, when in fact the wife had no grounds for a divorce; and the invalidity of the contract is not affected by the provisions of Rem. & Bal. Code, § 474, which leaves the compensation of attorneys to the agreement of the parties, or by the fact that parties to a divorce suit may agree upon a division of their property.</p>