STANTON v. Embrey, Administrator
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of .the District of Columbia.' On the 13th of- January, 1872, the plaintiff below, administrator of Robert" J. Atkinson, filed his declaration, claiming from the defendants $10,000 with interest, from May 1, 1871, for services alleged to have been performed by the deceased in prosecuting a claim in their behalf against the United States, before the third auditor of the treasury, from 1865 to Feb. 3, 1870, and subsequently by himself, as…
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Error to the Supreme Court of .the District of Columbia.' On the 13th of- January, 1872, the plaintiff below, administrator of Robert" J. Atkinson, filed his declaration, claiming from the defendants $10,000 with interest, from May 1, 1871, for services alleged to have been performed by the deceased in prosecuting a claim in their behalf against the United States, before the third auditor of the treasury, from 1865 to Feb. 3, 1870, and subsequently by himself, as administrator, before the .secretary and other officials of the Treasury Department. The defendants pleaded in abatement the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Services were rendered by Robert J. Atkinson, in his lifetime, as attorney for the defendants in prosecuting a claim, in their behalf, against the United States, before the accounting officers of tlie Treasury Department; and the plaintiff instituted the present suit in the- Supreme Court of the District to recover compensation for those services, including .a claim for services rendered by the decedent and by himself, as such administrator, in the same case, since the-decease, of the intestate.
Process, was served ;• and the defendants appeared and pleaded in abatement the pendency of a prior…
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