Burt v. Lathrop

Plaintiff sued a large number of defendants as jointly liable to him for his services as attorney in defending some patent suits concerning the right to use certain hard-rubber material in dentistry. He declared spe cially and with the common counts for these services, and also set up two judgments rendered in Jackson county for the same causes of action. Upon trial the court below ordered a verdict for defendants.

The counts which describe the judgments do not set them out in such a way as to make out any legal liability under them against all these defendants) and the proofs are not any more…