Peabody v. Carr

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Frazer,

Plaintiff sued defendant and two others in assumpsit to recover the sum of $200,000 with interest, alleging in his statement of claim that defendants entered into a conspiracy to defraud him of that amount in connection with a business transaction consummated in December, 1919. See Peabody v. Carr, 313 Pa. 325. The substance of the declaration is that defendant Carr, attorney and adviser of plaintiff, was engaged by the latter to secure an option for tbe purchase of the coal and coke property of the Orient Coke Company; that defendant secured such an option…