Consaul v. Cummings
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. The facts in these cases are fully set out in the decisions on the various appeals reported in 17 App. D. C. 269; 24 Id. 36; 30 Id. 540; 33 Id. 132. Only what is material to an understanding of the assignments of error need be now stated. George B. Edmonds was an ¿ttorney in Washington, practicing in the Court of Claims.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP APPEALS OP THE DISTRICT OP COLUMBIA. The facts in these cases are fully set out in the decisions on the various appeals reported in 17 App. D. C. 269; 24 Id. 36; 30 Id. 540; 33 Id. 132. Only what is material to an understanding of the assignments of error need be now stated. George B. Edmonds was an ¿ttorney in Washington, practicing in the Court of Claims. Under agreements to pay contingent fees, and giving him power of substitution, he represented a large number of clients, who had claims pending in that court and before Congress. A schedule was attached to a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lamar
In this accounting of the affairs of a special partnership between attorneys at law, the survivor claims compensation for services rendered after dissolution of. the firm.
Claims of this sort are not favored. They lead to efforts to prove a disparity between the partners, when the law implies equality. They necessitate a balancing of the value of the work of each in securing the business and earning the prófits, as well as a comparison of the time they may spend on the matters under consideration. Each partner is bound to devote himself to the firm’s business, and there is no implied…
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