Orphan Asylum v. Mississippi Marine Insurance
Supreme Court of Louisiana
ArrEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action to recover the sum of five hundred dollars from the defendants, being the amount of the annual salary of the attorney of the defendant’s insurance office, which has been duly assigned to the plaintiffs.
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ArrEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is an action to recover the sum of five hundred dollars from the defendants, being the amount of the annual salary of the attorney of the defendant’s insurance office, which has been duly assigned to the plaintiffs. The evidence shows that on the 20th November, 1833, John Slidell, Esq. was appointed attorney of the Mississippi Marine and Fire Insurance Company, which was notified to him by the President, and accepted, in the following terms : “You have been appointed by the board, attorney for this office. You will please say in reply…
1Opinion of the Court
Máthews, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiffs in this case, claim as assignees of John Slidell, five hundred dollars from the defendants on a contract made by the latter with the assignor, whereby they agreed to pay to him that sum for professional services to be rendered as attorney and counsellor at law, for the space of one year. The .insurance company refused to accept these services *184longer than about three months from the date of the contract, without alleging any cause to authorise a violation of their agreement. The Court below gave judgement against them pro rata, from…
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