Browne v. Phelps
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover $675 for professional services alleged to have been rendered to the defendant and $32 for cash disbursements alleged to have been made for and in behalf of the defendant at her request.
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Contract to recover $675 for professional services alleged to have been rendered to the defendant and $32 for cash disbursements alleged to have been made for and in behalf of the defendant at her request. Writ dated June 18, 1908. The defendant in a supplemental answer alleged that one of the plaintiffs at the time the services were rendered was not admitted to practise law in this Commonwealth in accordance with the provisions of the Revised Laws and statutes in amendment thereof. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Sanderson, J. The material facts are stated in the opinion. At…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
This is an action by a firm of attorneys, consisting of father and son practising in this State, to recover for services rendered and disbursements made in behalf of the defendant. The main question is whether the transactions were illegal as being in violation of R. L. c. 165, § 45.
This statute so far as material reads as follows: "Whoever, not having been admitted to practise as an attorney at law in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, represents himself to be an attorney or counsellor at law, or to be lawfully qualified to practise in the courts of this Commonwealth, by means…
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