Kellogg v. Stoddard

The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is an attorney-at-law; that in the month of July, 1900, Harriet Stoddard, the then wife of defendants’ testator, Addison Stoddard, retained him to commence an action in the Supreme Court for a separation and to procure a judgment for a suitable and adequate provision for her maintenance and support; that he thereafter, from time to time, spent a large amount of time and disbursed large sums of money in the preparation for and in the carrying on of said litigation, and that the separation action was begun on the 25th of January, 1901. The said Addison,…