March 25, 1908. May 20, 1908. Present: KNOWLTON, C.J., MORTON, HAMMOND, LORING, SHELDON, JJ. Attorney at Law. Agency. Partnership. An attorney at law, who is retained generally by a client to render such services as the client may need from time to time, is not the agent of such client to receive notice of the withdrawal of one of the members of a firm to whom the client is about to sell goods, where the attorney at the time he receives the information is not acting for the client in any way and