Fullam v. Adams
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, Windsor County, May Term, 1863, Barrett, J., presiding. The plaintiff offered to prove by parol that the defendant applied to him, in February, 1851, and proposed to employ him as a lawyer to assist the defendant in all the suits which might grow out of the defendant’s purchase of a farm and some "personal property of his brother, John Adams, who had^failed in business.
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Assumpsit. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, Windsor County, May Term, 1863, Barrett, J., presiding. The plaintiff offered to prove by parol that the defendant applied to him, in February, 1851, and proposed to employ him as a lawyer to assist the defendant in all the suits which might grow out of the defendant’s purchase of a farm and some "personal property of his brother, John Adams, who had^failed in business. That the defendant told the plaintiff if he would engage for him as his counsel in such suits as the defendant was interested in, he, the defendant would pay the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
Poland, Ch. J.
The defendant retained the plaintiff as his attortorney, in any litigation that might grow out of a conveyance to him of certain property by his brother, John Adams, (who had failed) ; and, in consideration of such retainer, promised the plaintiff, verbally, to pay him one-half of a debt of three or four hundred dollars, due to the plaintiff from the said John, and also promised to pay the plaintiff for his services if he performed any. The defendant claims that his promise is supported by no legal consideration, and therefore does not bind him. It has long been the practice for…
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