Playford v. Hutchinson

Citations

• 135 Pa. 426
• 19 A. 1019
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 1198

Syllabus

<p>1. In an action by an attorney at law to recover for professional services • rendered in the preparation and trial of a cause, evidence of what services were rendered and fees charged by other attorneys employed upon the same side with the plaintiff, is irrelevant and incompetent.</p> <p>2. An instruction to the effect that where a member of a firm employs an attorney to represent him in a cause in which the firm is interested, but tells him that the firm has no interest therein and that he individually is employing him, the attorney has a right of action against the partner . individually, for services rendered, is not error.</p> <p>3. In such an action, where the attorney has adduced evidence in support of his claim, as stated, it is not error to leave to the jury the question of fact whether he was employed in the manner claimed by him, and to instruct them that if they find he was so employed and rendered the service he is entitled to recover therefor.</p>