Ford v. . Harrington.

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment ordering the attorney to reconvey the fifty acres of land to the plaintiff, holding that the attorney-client relationship bars the attorney from retaining a fraudulent assignment of the client's equitable interest. The court applied the rule that an attorney must not profit from a transaction with his client, even when both parties are in fraud, and rejected the argument that the grantor could retain the property.