Wilson v. Hall

Opinion of the Court by

William Rogers Clay, Commissioner —

Reversing.

On the first or second day of October, 1897, Hiram Fee was arrested and placed in the Leslie County jail at Hyden, Kentucky, on the charge of having murdered one Robert Asher. He employed J. M. Bicknell and Judge William Lewis, members of the Leslie County *664bar, to defend him. Their fee was fixed at $150. To secure them in the payment of the fee, Hiram Fee and wife executed and delivered to them a mortgage on the tract of land in controversy. Bicknell and Lewis performed the services contemplated by their contract of…