Downing v. Major

Judge Underwood

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

As a petition for a rehearing has been presented, we deem it proper to state the point which governed the decision of' the case. We do not suppose that four hundred dollars divided between Messrs. Haggin, Monroe and Sanders, as counsel, for their services in defending the son of Major, upon an indictment for murder, could be regarded as an exorbitant fee to each. There is no law regulating the amount of the fee which an attorney may demand of his client. Unless there be a special contradt, the law fixes the compensation according to the valúe…