Niles Water Works v. Mayor of Niles

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the rule allowing an attorney to recover the reasonable value of services rendered “is well calculated to promote public confidence in the members of an honorable profession whose relation to them clients is personal and confidential” (citation omitted)
• explaining that the rule allowing an attorney to recover the reasonable value of services rendered “is well calculated to promote public confidence in the members of an honorable profession whose relation to their clients is personal and confidential” (citation omitted)
• “[Because] the client has the right to terminate the relation of attorney and client at any time[,] ... it follows as a natural consequence that [the client] cannot be compelled to pay damages for exercising that right .... ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).