An attorney can not recover full commissions for purchasing property for another, and in addition recover an attorney's fee for defending a suit involving the right of the vendor to repudiate a sale previously made to others, as it devolved on the attorney to defeat such suit in order to earn his commissions, he having advised the purchasers that the vendor could sell. Schomberg v. Anxier, 101 Ky. 292, 40 S. W. 911, 19 Ky. L. R. 548. See also Sec. 248. Where a client conveyed to an attorney an interest in real estate as compensation for securing a loan for him, instead of a cash fee, the attorney acquired an equitable lien thereon. Goad v. Hart, 128 Cal. 197, 60 P. 761, 964.

An attorney was employed to sell real estate; the purchaser he secured was one of his clients, and was also president of a corporation of which the attorney was a director, and the contract of purchase was made for the benefit of the said corporation, the property being conveyed to it. Held, that the attorney sustained a relation of trust to both his client and the corporation, and could not recover commissions on such sale without proof that the purchaser had knowledge of and consented to his contract for commissions. Neharda v. Presberger, 107 N. Y. S. 897, 123 App. Div. 418; Clark v. Freeport Clays, Products & Minerals Co., 52 Pa. Super. Ct. 1, 6. Authority to agents to em* ploy attorneys to secure the right and title of the principal to certain lands, did not authorize them to convey half the land to the attorneys for the services to be performed by them. Blum v. Robertson, 24 Cal. 128.

Eights of attorney who, through widow's man of business, contracted to procure a purchaser for realty for usual commission, were not affected by evidence in his suit for commission tending to impeach the fair dealing of widow's man of business with her. Stieglitz v. Settle, 165 P. 436, - Cal. Sup. - .