Bowman v. Tallman
The Superior Court of New York City
This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff, and also, from an order denying a motion for a new trial, made upon the justice’s minutes, in an action brought to recover an alleged balance due for professional services, claimed to have been rendered by the plaintiff, an attorney and counsellor at law. Tallman, the appellant, was executor of his father’s will.
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This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff, and also, from an order denying a motion for a new trial, made upon the justice’s minutes, in an action brought to recover an alleged balance due for professional services, claimed to have been rendered by the plaintiff, an attorney and counsellor at law. Tallman, the appellant, was executor of his father’s will. The latter died in 1849, leaving certain real estate situate in the city of Hew York, and which, by his will, was to be divided among the appellant’s sisters, and their issue, and his…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCunn, J.
This is an action brought by the plaintiff against the defendant to recover the sum of $1341.18, for professional services rendered as an attorney and counsellor at law. The complaint is in the usual form, setting forth that by reason of certain retainers, on the part of the defendant, he, the plaintiff, performed certain professional services, as an attorney and counsellor at law, and that he is justly entitled to recover a fair compensation therefor. The answer does not deny the rendering of the services, nor the value thereof, but sets up as a defense a want of retainer of the plaintiff on…
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