Collins v. Godfrey

This action is by an attorney at law, who at all material times was also a special justice of the District Court of Springfield, to recover for legal services in the nature of advice given by him to the defendant’s intestate in relation to a criminal complaint against the latter which was pending in the same District Court. All advice was given in the plaintiff’s office without appearance in court.

The defendant contends that the services were illegally rendered in violation of a general rule adopted by this court on December 7, 1935, which provides that “no justice, special justice, clerk or…