Legal Opinion
Jones v. Pettingill
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 16, 1917No. 1173PublishedCited by 11 opinions
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Porto Rico; Peter J. Hamilton, Judge. Suit by N. B. K. Pettingill and others against Walter McK. Jones. From a decree in favor of complainants, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
DODGE, Circuit Judge.
The rights asserted by the appellees, plaintiffs in the District Court, are based upon a contract in writing, made at Ponce, March 20, 1905, between them and Adelaida Olivieri. Her agreements were as follows:
“I agree to pay to Messrs. Pettingill and Leake, my lawyers, the half of what I may receive if the judgment of the court is favorable in a suit which I am going to bring in the Federal Court against Antonio Olivieri, executor of Felix Olivieri, if said lawyers pay all the costs and expenses of said suit, and carry it to a conclusion, in case of settlement the lawyers…
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