Lee v. Cohick

This a proceeding in equity to subject the real estate, now held by the defendant Emeline Cohick to her separate use, to a charge or lien alleged to have been created by her by a contract for legal services, rendered to her at a fixed compensation. Upon trial of the cause the plaintiffs had a decree, as prayed for. The defendants, appealing, assign for error that the court illegally admitted oral evidence of the contract; that the decree is opposed to the weight of evidence, and that it is unwarranted upon the plaintiff’s own evidence, as such evidence fails to show any separate estate in…