49 P. 962 | Or. | 1897
after stating the facts, delivered the opinion of the court.
The right of the plaintiff to maintain this action depends upon the authority of the sheriff to accept as
An exception to this instruction having been taken, it is contended by counsel for the defendant that an attorney has, by virtue of his general retainer, no authority to satisfy a judgment without payment thereof in money; that while Bader might have accepted Harrer Brothers’ certificate to the notice of garnishment as part payment of the judgment, Everts, as his attorney, had no power to do so without special authority from his client to that effect; and that, if plaintiff would rely upon Everts’ right to bind his •principal, the burden was upon him to show that the
In Herriman v. Shomon, 36 Am. Rep. 261, Messrs. Schulenberg and Company recovered judgment against the defendant, and thereupon assigned the same to plaintiff, who caused an execution to be issued thereon, in pursuance of which a levy was made upon the defendant’s stock of goods. Shornon therteupon commenced this suit to restrain proceedings under the writ, claiming that he had delivered to the attorney of Schulenberg and Company a county warrant, which was received’ as payment pro tanto on the judgment. A trial was had, and the court, having found that the judgment had been paid before the issue of the execution, gave a judgment as prayed for, in reversing which Brewer, J., says: “There is no pretense that the plaintiffs in the judgment knew of the action of their attorney, authorized or ratified it, or that he had
Reversed.