Ludden & Bates v. Sumter

Citations

• 45 S.C. 186
• 22 S.E. 738
• 1895 S.C. LEXIS 7

Syllabus

<p>Attorney and Cdient — Evidence.—An attorney at law has no power to release a lien upon property held by his client, without express authority so to do from his client; and in action for claim and delivery, where defense was payment by acceptance by attornej' of another security in substitution of one sued on, it was error in Circuit Judge to refuse to allow plaintiff to ask the attorney accepting the security: “Were you authorized by your client to accept any other security in substitution or payment of the piano note?”</p>