Waterman v. Robertson

Citations

• 103 Wash. 553
• 175 P. 177
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1255

Syllabus

<p>Attorney and Client — Authority to Begin Suit — Evidence—■ Sufficiency. An action of unlawful detainer to recover leased premises, upon which the tenant had erected valuable improvements, must fail for want of the attorney’s authority to commence it, where the lessees were absent from the state, and endeavored in good faith by telegraph to make an adjustment of a bona fide dispute for taxes, and the plaintiffs attorney, whose only authority at the time was to consider the adjustment and wire advice, took advantage of the lessees’ absence and precipitated the unlawful detainer suit, after three days’ notice by mailing and leaving copies on the premises.</p>