What to do, what to do?
Published Jan 01, 1900
A lawyer charged a man $500 for given legal services.
The client paid him in cash with five crisp new $100 bills. After the client left, the lawyer was smelling the money when he discovered that two bills had stuck together -- he'd been overpaid by $100!
This posed an ethical dilemma for the lawyer: Was he obligated to share the extra $100 with his partner?
Originally published November 14, 2002.
