Blaikie v. Post
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Franklin Post, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 21st day of June, 1909, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clérk’s office on the 24th day of June, 1909, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
On the 1st day of February, 1901, the plaintiff’s intes.tate, William Blaikie, was employed by the defendant to bring and prosecute a suit to set aside a mortgage held by Charles P. and W. W. Buckley on 220 acres of land in Linden, H. fT., owned by the defendant. On that day he gave the defendant a receipt for $100 for disbursements, and in it stated that his compensation was to be twenty-five per cent of the amount recovered. A suit was brought in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District-of Hew York, which was decided adversely to the plaintiff in that suit on the…
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