Breedlove v. Turner

Porter, J.*

The plaintiffs allege that they employed the defendant, an attorney and counsellor at law, to commence a suit by attachment, against Thos. H. Fletcher, a citizen of Tennesse, on a claim arising from his endorsement of a protested bill of exchange, drawn by C. Stump, of Nashville, on Stump, Eastland & *354Cox, New-Orleans, for $8200, for which sum, together with the interest and damages, amounting in the whole to $10,500, he Fletcher was indebted to them. That for a reasonable fee and reward, by them to be paid the defendant agreed to conduct said suit skilfully, faithfully and…