Viser v. Bertrand
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Error to the Circuit Court of Pulaski county. lion. W. H. Feild, Circuit Judge, presiding! The main questions in this case arise upon the vicious and illegal consideration at the foundation of the contract sued on.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Pulaski county. lion. W. H. Feild, Circuit Judge, presiding! The main questions in this case arise upon the vicious and illegal consideration at the foundation of the contract sued on. Part of which was made by a feme covert for professional services, and of course void on that ground alone; the other upon an unlawful arrangement between the solicitors of herself and her husband, to obtain a decree of divorce from the Circuit Court, in violation of the statute regulating divorces, and void, both on account of its. immorality, and because she was a married woman.…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Watkins
This was an action of assumpsit with a count for professional services, the common money counts, and an account stated, brought by Bertrand against Mrs. Yiser, the plaintiff in error. The bill of exceptions disclosed a claim for $150, charged as an attorney’s fee, and $300 money advanced for her, and at her request.
The evidence on the trial conduced to show the following state of facts. Bertrand had been the attorney of Mrs. Yiser in prosecuting a suit in the Pulaski Circuit Court, against her husband for divorce, and for his services in conducting that suit, the fee of $150 was charged. It…
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