McCurley v. Stockbridge

The question in these cases is raised by demurrer to the declarations. In the one case, the widow sues to recover *423•of the administrators of her deceased husband a sum with which to pay counsel fees for prosecuting a suit for divorce from her husband in his life-time, but which proceeding never reached a decree, in consequence of the death of the husband. In the other case, the action is by the attorneys themselves to recover of the administrators of the deceased husband reasonable compensation for services rendered the wife in the divorce suit, as for necessaries supplied to her.

1. As to the…