Case Name: BROADWELL v. FIELD
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1915-06-07
Citations: 186 Mich. 333
Docket Number: Docket No. 138
Parties: BROADWELL v. FIELD.
Judges: Brooke, C. J., and McAlvay, Kuhn, Stone, Bird, Moore, and Steere, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 186
Pages: 333–333

Head Matter:
BROADWELL v. FIELD.
Accounting — Fiduciary Relations — Appeal and Error — Trusts — Attorney and Client.
Evidence in a suit for an accounting considered and held, to sustain the decree of the circuit court applying the rules applicable to the relation of attorney and client and of trustee and beneficiary.
Appeal from Wayne; Collingwood, J., presiding.
Submitted April 16, 1915.
(Docket No. 138.)
Decided June 7, 1915.
Bill by Allie M. Broadwell against John F. Field and others for an accounting. From a decree for complainant, defendants appeal.
Affirmed.
Harry H. Wait (Lyle G. Younglove, of counsel), for complainant.
W. I. Robinson and R. Á. Hawley, for defendants.

Opinion:
Ostrander, J.
One purpose of the bill of complaint filed in this cause was to secure an accounting and settlement with defendant Donovan as trustee, and also as attorney and legal adviser of complainant. The appeal involves only the decree of the court below made upon the accounting. No questions of law are involved, except that there must be applied, and there was applied in the court below, the rules of law applicable as between a trustee and the cestui que trust and an attorney and client. An examination of the record has satisfied us that the court below reached a proper conclusion, and its decree ought not to be disturbed. It is affirmed, with costs of this appeal to complainant.
Brooke, C. J., and McAlvay, Kuhn, Stone, Bird, Moore, and Steere, JJ., concurred.