Fitzgerald's v. Irby
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Henrico county, pronounced May 2, 1899, in a chancery suit therein pending under the style of Irby & Others v. Williams’ Adm’r & Others, in which the appellant filed his petition.
1Opinion of the CourtPhlegar, J.
John L. Irby and Thomas W. Epes, and Mary, his wife, employed J. P. Fitzgerald, an attorney at law, to bring suits against the representatives and sureties of E. C. Williams, deceased, who had been their guardian and the executor of their grandfather, to recover amounts due from him as such guardian and executor. They contracted to pay Mr. Fitzgerald for his services, a specified percentage of the amounts which might be collected, “to be paid out of 'the said collections.”
Eitzgerald brought the suits in Hottoway county. They were removed to Henrico, and .decrees were rendered in favor of the…
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