Miller v. Haskell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover for services rendered at the request of the defendants in the settlement of a claim against the city of Boston for taking certain land and buildings of the defendants for the laying out and widening of Columbia Road in that city, the first count alleging, that the defendants owed the plaintiff $950 under an agreement to pay him five per cent of the amount for which he should effect a settlement, and that the plaintiff obtained an offer from the city to…
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Contract to recover for services rendered at the request of the defendants in the settlement of a claim against the city of Boston for taking certain land and buildings of the defendants for the laying out and widening of Columbia Road in that city, the first count alleging, that the defendants owed the plaintiff $950 under an agreement to pay him five per cent of the amount for which he should effect a settlement, and that the plaintiff obtained an offer from the city to settle the claim for $19,500, but that the defendants wrongfully prevented the plaintiff from completing the settlement,…
1Opinion of the CourtBoring, J.
The plaintiff had a right to go to the jury on the second count.
Certain land owned by the defendants had been taken by the city of Boston in widening a public way known as Columbia Road. The plaintiff testified that he was employed by the defendants to secure from the city fair compensation for that land, and in pursuance of that employment had spent much time, between May 23 and the latter end of July, 1898, when he ascertained that a member of the bar was conducting the case, who asked him “to simply keep quiet.” The defendants testified that they made a special arrangement with the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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