The Executors of Aitkin, Deceased
Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
Judgment Date | 08 November 1820 |
Date | 08 November 1820 |
Court | Court of the King's Bench |
English Reports Citation: 106 E.R. 855
IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
in the mattbk of the executors OF aitkin, Deceased. Wednesday, November 8th, 1820. Where the employment of an attorney is so connected with his professional character as to afford a presumption that his employment was in consequence of that character, the Court will interfere in a summary way to compel him faithfully to execute the trust reposed in him; and therefore, where an attorney was employed by A. to collect and get in the effects due to him as administrator of another person, the Court compelled the attorney to render an account to the executors of A. of the monies, &c. received by him, although he (a) Abbott C.J. and Holroyd J. were absent in the House of Lords. 856 CRAWSHAY V. HOMFRAY 4B.&ALD.48/ had never been employed by A. or his executors to conduct any suit in law or equity on his or their behalf. [Discussed, Cooper v. Ewart, 1847, 2 PI. 366.] Scarlett had obtained a...
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Att Gen v Carbonneau
...second defendant; Ms. S.M. Corbett for Barclays Private Bank & Trust (Cayman) Ltd. Cases cited: (1) Aitken, ReENR(1820), 4 B. & Ald. 47; 106 E.R. 855, distinguished. (2) Bodenham, Ex p.ENR(1838), 8 Ad. & E. 959; 112 E.R. 1105, distinguished. (3) Dangar”s Trusts, ReELR(1889), 41 Ch. D. 178, ......