119 N.Y.S. 81 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1909
Section 835 of the Code of Civil Procedure does not protect against disclosure every communication which the client may choose to make to his attorney under a pledge of secrecy. It protects only such communications as the • client may make not pending the attorney’s professional employment, but "in the course of it.” To come within the protective provisions alluded to, therefore, the communication must be one essentially confidential and relate to the subject-matter upon which the attorney’s advice was given or may be sought. Such communication to the attorney of the client’s place of abode or residence is not, nor is the concealment of the subject-matter of such a communication, essential t;
Ordered accordingly.