Court Opinion

ID: 7867058
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-08 19:45:52.751062+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:31:07.437456
License: Public Domain

Manning, C. J.
While this suit was pending, the defendants made a settlement of the debt for the recovery of which the suit was instituted. That settlement was made with the attorney of the plaintiffs, the attorney of record whose name is appended to the petition. The plaintiffs refused to ratify the settlement, and the attorney refused to prosecute the suit. Other counsel was employed, and the defendants set up the compromise and settlement already made in bar of the action.
*96The plaintiffs then took out garnishment process against the fund in the former attorney’s hands, i.e., the money paid by the defendant in settlement of the plaintiffs’ claim.
The presiding judge in the court below asked the attorney who brought the suit and made the settlement, if he was authorized to make it, and he responded affirmatively; and being further interrogated as to the person who had authorized him to make it, answered that the plaintiffs had thus authorized him.
If this could be supposed insufficient to bind the plaintiffs, their subsequent garnishment of the money in their former attorney’s hands, put there by the defendants expressly in settlement of the plaintiffs’ demand, should be decisive of the question of ratification. The judge a quo so ruled, and we think correctly.

Judgment affirmed.