Dempsey v. Dorrance

Plaintiff is an attorney at law and instituted this action on an account for legal services alleged to have been performed by him for defendant at the latter’s request. The judgment in the trial court was for plaintiff for the sum of seven hundred dollars.

The account is made up of seven different items; the first is one thousand dollars for attending to a suit of Mason against defendant for breach of promise, which is yet pending. The second is for five dollars for services in taking depositions in another case *430against defendant. The third is for fifty dollars in talcing depositions in the…