Bull & Son v. Carpenter

This was a suit brought by a firm of attorneys against a trustee for a sum claimed to be due for legal services, under an express oral contract alleged to have been made by a predecessor in office of the defendant trustee. In addition to their own evidence in support of their claim, the plaintiffs offered the interrogatories of the former trustee, testifying positively that he had employed the plaintiffs and made a contract with them to represent him as trustee, and that they had successfully represented the trust estate. The defendant, however, offered in rebuttal the depositions of this…