Belkus v. Murdoch

The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff on the second count of his declaration which alleges, in effect, *87that the defendant, an attorney at law, by virtue of G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 221, § 51, owes him as the client a sum of money that he has unreasonably neglected to pay upon demand, together with five times the lawful interest. Griffiths v. Powers, 216 Mass. 169. The only exceptions taken at the trial that have been argued are to the exclusion of two alleged assignments to the plaintiff’s intestate and to the denial of two requests for rulings. Apart from the testimony of the defendant…