437 So. 2d 1247 - Young v. Reddock’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““We do not think the effect of this statute is to invest the attorney with power over the entire cause equal to that of his client, but to invest him with authority to bind his client in all matters which relate to the prosecution or defense of the rights of his client, to collect and receipt for him, to sue out and direct process, to make all such preliminary agreements as he may deem necessary to lead to or secure a trial of the cause, and settle, by agreement or waiver, any and all questions which incidentally arise during the progress of the trial. Many other instances or powers might be enumerated. The statute does not enlarge the duties of an attorney, nor give him authority to compromise the claim of his client, whether liquidated or unliquidated, admitted or controverted. In this particular his duties and authority are the same as they were or would be without the statute. Courts often set aside agreements of counsel because improvidently made, but orders of this kind apply to agreements within the scope of the authority of counsel. The action of the court would not be based upon the grounds of ‘improvidence’ if there was no authority for making the agreement. We have many decisions rendered since the adoption of the statute found in section 866, [Code 1886] which declare that an attorney has no authority to compromise a claim before suit, nor after it has been reduced to judgment. We are not aware that any decision has been rendered in which it was held that he had a”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Blackwell v. Adams

2. “The trial judge was certainly in the best position to determine whether this case presented extraordinary circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 456 So. 2d 60 - Montgomery v. Burchell