Nathan v. Halsell

Citations

• 91 Miss. 785
• 45 So. 856

Syllabus

<p>1. Attorney and Client. Fees. Contracts.</p> <p>Where an attorney fixed the fee he would charge for collecting money, he cannot afterwards predicate a greater charge of the fact that more labor was required to effect the collection than he had anticipated.</p> <p>2. Same. Compromise by attorney. Liability to client.</p> <p>The proceeds of an unauthorized compromise of his client’s debt cannot be returned by an attorney to the debtor because the client objected only to the quantum of his fee.</p>