McLain v. Watkins

Citations

• 43 Ill. 24

Syllabus

<p>Attorney and client—when relation ends—subsequent acts of attorney. An attorney employed to collect a debt, prosecuted suit, which resulted in a sale of land upon execution. After the time for redemption had expired, he received and paid redemption money to the plaintiff in execution, who before that time had transferred the certificate. Held, {¡¡hat the relation of attorney and client ended after the time for redemption expired, and that the attorney could do no act in the matter without new authority; held, also, that the attorney was liable to the defendant in execution for the money so received.</p>