State v. Mayes

This was a bill filed by the appellee in the superior court of chancery, alleging that in the year 1853- the complainant was retained by the attorney-general of the State, as counsel in behalf of the State in the case of Hezron A. Johnston v. The State, then pending in this court, the attorney-general stipulating that the State would pay the complainant the sum of $1,000 for preparing an argument for a rehearing of said case before this court, and if he succeeded in obtaining a rehearing,, the State would pay him the further sum of $1,000 to argue the case upon the rehearing; that the payment…