Gaffney v. Jones

Citations

• 18 Wash. 311
• 51 P. 461
• 1897 Wash. LEXIS 162

Syllabus

<p>ATTORNEY AND CLIENT — CONTRACTS — PURCHASE BY ATTORNEY OF GOODS LEVIED ON IN CLIENT’S ACTION.</p> <p>■Where an attorney, after having obtained a judgment for his client and a levy of execution upon a quantity of brick to satisfy same, agrees with his client to bid in the brick himself and turn over to the client the excess of the bid over the amount of a prior mortgage on the brick, and the attorney subsequently dismisses the levy and purchases the brick at private sale on his own account from the judgment debtor, he is liable to his client'for any excess in value of the brick over the mortgage lien thqreon at the time of purchase by him, up to the full sum of her judgement.</p>