Pile v. Thompson

Citations

• 62 Pa. Super. 400
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 436

Syllabus

<p>Attorney-at-law — Counsel fees — Illegal contract — Foreclosure of mortgage.</p> <p>An attorney-at-law who has received instructions from a building association to foreclose a mortgage, cannot enter into a valid contract in writing with the mortgagee by which the latter agrees to pay him in consideration of postponing the foreclosure proceedings until a date named, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars in lieu of attorney’s commissions of two hundred and fifty dollars under the mortgage.</p>