Hartness v. Brown

Citations

• 21 Wash. 655
• 59 P. 491
• 1899 Wash. LEXIS 346

Syllabus

<p>EVIDENCE — PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATIONS-ATTORNEY AND CLIENT.</p> <p>Information acquired by an attorney in the course of Ms professional employment, in which Ms advice has been sought by a client and a third party, concerning a transaction between them, cannot be divulged by the attorney in a suit in which such third party is interested, without the latter’s consent.</p> <p>SAME — RULE IN CASE OP PRAUD.</p> <p>The rule that communications made to an attorney in contemplation of fraud are not privileged is inapplicable in the case of statements made to an attorney with reference to an executed transfer of real property, although the transfer may have been made in fraud of creditors.</p> <p>(Dunbar, X, dissents.)</p>