 | Nicholas Baylies - 1814 - 576 strani
...rule of January term, 1709, as to filing security for costs. Frary v. Dakin. 8 Johns. Rep. 333. 23. Whenever an attorney disobeys the lawful instructions of his client, and a loss ensues, the attorney i* responsible for such loss. Gilbert v. Williams. 8 Mass. 51. VI. Other Points relative... | |
 | Sir John Comyns - 1824 - 840 strani
...8 Mass. Rep. 51. and Dearborn ~. Dearborn. 15 Mass. Rep. 316. the general principle was recognized, that whenever an attorney disobeys the lawful instructions of his client, and a loss ensues, the attorney is responsible for it. \ As if he sign a judgment before the rules expire, whereby the... | |
 | Esek Cowen - 1841 - 590 strani
...nonsuit was obtained against the client, is not, of itself, evidence of negligence in the attorney.(u) Whenever an attorney disobeys the lawful instructions of his client, and a loss ensues, the attorney is responsible for the damages occasioned by such loss.(w) But in other cases he is not... | |
 | Asa Kinne - 1853 - 538 strani
...v. Dearborn, 15 Mass., 316. Iluntinglon v. Ruinnil, 3 Day, 390. Bracket v. Norton, 4 Conn., 517. And whenever an attorney disobeys the lawful instructions of his client, and a loss ensues, the attorney is responsible for the loss. — Gilbert v. Williams, 8 Mass., 51. And where two attorneys... | |
 | Conway Robinson - 1855 - 884 strani
...Parker v. Rolls, 14 Id. 691, 78 Eng. Com. Law Rep. 208, 691, 28 Eng. Law & Eq. 424. In Massachusetts, whenever an attorney disobeys the lawful instructions of ^his client, and a loss ensues, the attorney is responsible for that loss. Gilbert v. Williams, 8 Mass. 57. If a note be put in the... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1855 - 1120 strani
...is liable to his client for the injury sustained by him. Dearborn v. Dearborn, 15 Mass. Я1Й. Where an attorney disobeys the lawful instructions of his client, and a loss ensues, he is responsible for the loss. Gilbert v. Williams, 8 .Mass. 01. See Smith c. Brewster, 7 i'ick. ]:j",... | |
 | William Tidd - 1856 - 838 strani
...Cre3. 697. 5 Dowl. & Ryl. 389, SC 3 Bing. 70. 10 Moore, 360, SC but see 8 Moore, 208. [A] Perhaps, whenever an attorney disobeys the lawful instructions of his client, and a loss ensues, he is responsible for that loss to its actual extent. Gilbert v. Williams, 8 Mass. 61. But he is not... | |
 | George Sharswood - 1860 - 212 strani
...can only satisfy the truly conscientious practitioner. But what are the limits of his duty when the attorney disobeys the lawful instructions of his client,...ensues, for that loss the attorney is responsible. Gilbert v. Williams, 8 Mass. 57. If the holder of a note place it in the hands of an attorney-at-law,... | |
 | Theron Metcalf, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins - 1860 - 746 strani
...against the former, he is estopped to deny that he is attorney. ffFarland v. Crary, 8 Cow. 253. 168. Whenever an attorney disobeys the lawful instructions of his client, and a loss ensues, the attorney is responsible for that loss. Gilbert v. Williams, 8 Mass. 51. 169. Where he is chargeable... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 780 strani
...the one capacity or the other. The attorney is liable for want of ordinary care and skill. When he disobeys the lawful instructions of his client, and a loss ensues, for that loss he is responsible. But a client has no right to control his attorney in the due and orderly conduct... | |
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It will be sufficient, to decide this case, that whenever an attorney disobeys the lawful instructions of his client, and a loss ensues, for that loss the attorney is responsible. 
