Gottstein v. Harrington

Citations

• 25 Wash. 508
• 65 P. 753
• 1901 Wash. LEXIS 423

Syllabus

<p>ATTORNEY AND CLIENT-LIEN UPON PAPERS-WAIVER.</p> <p>Under Bal. Code, § 4772, which provides that an attorney has a lien for his compensation upon the papers of his client, which have come into his possession in the course of his professional employment, no right of action is given the attorney to enforce such lien, hut he is merely entitled to retain such papers until paid, and where he parts with possession, even that right is waived and relinquished.</p> <p>MORTGAGES-ASSIGNMENT — NOTICE.</p> <p>Under Bal. Code, § 4565, which provides that any person to whom any real estate or chattel mortgage is given, or any person to whom such mortgage has been assigned and who has recorded the assignment in the office of the county auditor wherein such mortgage is of record, may satisfy and discharge the same of record, a purchaser is not required to make inquiry beyond the records of the county auditor’s office, and where without notice of an outstanding unrecorded assignment he purchases the mortgaged property for a valuable consideration on the faith of a satisfaction by the mortgagee on the records, he obtains a clear title thereto.</p>