Garnett v. Carson

Plaintiff sued the administrator of John B. Carson, deceased, in the circuit court, for $200, as the reasonable value of services rendered by plaintiff as an attorney, in *291defending, in the supreme court of the United States, an action commenced against the deceased in his lifetime in the circuit court of the state, which services the administrator had agreed to pay to plaintiff out of the assets of the estate. There was judgment against defendant as administrator. The record presents only this question: whether this demand could be legally allowed against the estate of the deceased. The…