Eggleston v. Boardman

Plaintiffs brought an action upon the common counts to recover for services rendered as attorneys in several different causes.

In considering the several questions raised in this case, we will examine them in their order as arranged in the brief of defendant’s counsel.

I. The first, third, sixth and seventh exceptions depend upon the same question of law, and are fairly stated by defendant’s counsel in the following request, which they desired the court to give the jury but which was refused:

“When an attorney is employed to argue a case in the supreme court, the value of his services in the…