Wildey v. Crane

The defendant is an attorney at law practicing in Yan Bnren county. The plaintiff brought an action against defendant in assumpsit, and filed a declaration setting out his cause of action as follows:

“ Van Burén County — ss.: Albert R. Wildey complains of Edgar A. Crane, the defendant, in a plea of trespass on the case upon promises; for that whereas, heretofore, to wit, on the eighteenth day of November, A. D. 1881, defendant, being an attorney at law at Paw Paw, in said county, covenanted and agreed with the plaintiff that he would bring a suit in the name of the plaintiff against the…