JUDGMENT

The appellant engaged respondent, an advocate, to file a suit against one Siddaramma Shetty for recovery of Rs. 60,175/- on the basis of a pronote in the Court of Civil Judge, Shimoga. The suit was numbered as O.S. No. 237/1986. During the pendency of the suit, property situate in Nehru Road belonging to defendant Siddaramma Shetty was got attached by a Court order. The suit was compromised on 16.1.1987. It appears that the attachment of the property continued even after judgment. Prior to the filing of O.S. No. 237/1986, the respondent as a lawyer, had also filed a suit on behalf of Siddaramma Shetty before the Civil Judge. That suit was a partition suit and was numbered as O.S. No. 119/1986. The property involved in the partition suit was the same property which became subject matter of attachment in O.S. No. 237/1986. In the partition suit (O.S. No. 119/1986), admittedly, the appellant was not a party. In that suit Siddaramma Shetty had obtained an injunction against the defendants therein with regard to the property situate at Nehru Road, subject matter of attachment in O.S. No. 237/1986.

2. Despite the compromise entered into on 16.1.1987 in O.S. No. 237/1986, Siddaramm