Case ID: ga-app_11/html/0009-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pottle, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

3915.
    Bell & Harrell v. Kwilecki.
    Decided April 2, 1912.
    Certiorari; from Decatur superior court — Judge Prank Park. November 16, 1911.
    
      A. E. Thornton, for plaintiffs in error. W. H. Krause, contra.
   Pottle, J.

1. “Without special authority, attorneys can not receive anything in discharge of a client’s claim but the full amount in cash.” Civil Code (1910), § 4956; Patterson v. Childs, 9 Ga. App. 646 (72 S. E. 45).

2. The court did not err in sustaining the certiorari and entering final judgment in the plaintiff’s favor. Judgment affirmed.