[DOWNLOAD] "Estate Of Keatinge V. Biddle" by First Circuit U.S. Court Of Appeals # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Estate Of Keatinge V. Biddle
- Author : First Circuit U.S. Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
Description
A federal jury in Maine found that a lawyer and her law firm had simultaneously represented Murray Keatinge and another person with interests adverse to Murray (his son Kent) and then compounded the problem by suing Murray on behalf of Kent. For this breach of an attorney's duty of loyalty and care, the jury awarded damages of $660,000. The defense of attorney Elizabeth Biddle and the firm of Strout & Payson was that they had never represented Murray Keatinge; rather, they had only represented Kent: they had represented Kent in the exercise of the power of attorney granted by Murray, in both the sale of Murray's house and the management of Murray's business. Defendants contended that an attorney's representation of the holder of a power of attorney can never establish an attorney-client relationship with the grantor of that power.