Coram v. Ingersoll
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Aldrich, District Judge, dissenting. Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
1Opinion of the Court
LOAVELL, Circuit Judge.
Andrew J. Davis died a citizen of Montana, leaving property both in Montana and in Massachusetts. John A. Davis, one of his next of kin, offered for probate in Montana a will which gave to him nearly the whole of this property. Certain other next of kin, desiring to contest the will, retained as counsel Robert G. Ingersoll, a citizen of New York, the plaintiff's intestate. Shortly afterwards two of these clients agreed with him in writing for his employment, and for a fee of $100,000 conditioned upon the defeat of the will.
The validity of the will was tried in Montana,…
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- United States v. ParkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
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