Northern Pac. Ry. Co. v. Clarke
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the' Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the District of Washington.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by Charles W. Clarke against the Northern Pacific Railway Company upon a claim assigned to him by. William T. Stoll for services rendered the 'railway company as attorney at law in certain damage cases in the month of November, 1897. ' It was alleged that the services were of the reasonable value of $5,000. The case was tried before the court *795and a jury, and resulted in a judgment in favor of tlie plaintiff for $500. At the close of tlie testimony, counsel for tlie defendant moved tlie court to instruct tlie jury to find a verdict for tlie defendant,…
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