Evans v. Bell

Judge Ewing

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Bell brought an action of slander against Davis, for charging him with perjury, and employed Evans to prosecute the suit, as his attorney, and executed to him his covenant binding himself to pay, for his services, a sum « equal to the one tenth of the amount of damages that might be recovered.”

A plea of justification having been filed, Bell after-wards came into Court, and dismissed his suit. Whereupon, Evans sued out a warrant from a justice, for a fee of thirty dollars, and recovered judgment. Bell appealed to the Circuit Court, and a verdict…