Treat v. Jones
Supreme Court of Connecticut
*Book debt. The plaintiff was a counsellor at [ *335 ] law, and brought the suit to recover for professional fees and disbursements.
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*Book debt. The plaintiff was a counsellor at [ *335 ] law, and brought the suit to recover for professional fees and disbursements. The case, was referred to an auditor, who found that the defendant employed the plaintiff to defend him in certain public prosecutions and that the services were rendered and money paid by the plaintiff in so defending him ; and found that the defendant was indebted to the plaintiff’ in the sum off $48, if the plaintiff was entitled to recover anything. But the auditor further found that, shortly before the prosecutions referred to, the defendant with sundry…
1Opinion of the CourtSanforb, J.
The plaintiff, then an attorney and counsellor at law, being one of the instigators arid promoters of á riot, encouraged the defendant to take part in it, by urging him on, and by promising to defend him. The defendant was prosecuted for that riot, and the plaintiff, being employed by him as his counsel, made the promised defense, and, for his expenses and professional services in the making of that defense, he seeks to recover in this suit. No principle of law or justice warrants such recovery. '
It is true, as the plaintiff contends, that the plaintiff’s promise to defend could not have been…
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