Does an attorney have the authority to enforce a claim arising from a precedent debt?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Sampliner v. Motion Picture Patents Co., 255 F. 242 (2nd Cir. 1918):
In Jordan v. Gillen, 44 N.H. 424 (1862), the client assigned to his attorney a cause of action sounding in tort, the consideration being the discharge of a precedent debt due from the client to the attorney. The transaction was held to be not invalid and that the attorney would have the right to enforce the claim.
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