Note 137 — OF ACTIONS BY MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS.

In one point counsel have an advantage over physicians in respect of their fees; the attorney or solicitor who can recover his costs at law, is an intermediate agent and he is held professionally liable to the counsel for their payment; and if the attorney have received his costs from his client (including fees) it would appear that the counsel might recover in an action for money had and received to his use. It is to the honor of the profession that we should find no decided case on the subject.