Wakeman v. Throckmorton
Supreme Court of Connecticut
■ Action by an attorney at law to recover for professional services, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Curtis, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $732, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The defendant was adjudicated a bankrupt in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio, on November 16th, 1899, on his petition filed two days earlier. On November 16th he filed a demurrer to the complaint in the case at bar. This was sustained by the court on December 27th, with leave to the plaintiff to file a substitute complaint, which was done on January 16th, 1900. Meanwhile, on December 20th, the defendant had moved for a stay of the action under the Bankrupt Act of 1898, § 11, until twelve months after the date of the adjudication in bankruptcy, which…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Hill v. HardingSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Dunnett v. ThorntonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1900
3Cited by6 opinions
- Metcalf v. BarkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Schunack v. Art Metal Novelty Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1911
- Smith v. DoyleCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1938
- In re ThrockmortonCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1906
- Coast Lakes Contracting Corporation v. MartinSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1917
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