Lynch v. Pollard

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee as assignee of Isaac E. Hitt to recover of appellant, for collecting his claim against the United States arising from Indian depredations, a sum equal to 10 per cent of the claim in addition to the sum allowed by the Court of Claims, and already received as attorney’s fees.

March 9, 1898, appellant executed and delivered to Isaac R. Hitt a written instrument addressed to the Court of Claims at Washington, D. C., which authorized that court to give judgment in favor of Isaac R. Hitt, attorney in fact for appellant, for his fees and…