Rainey v. Lafayette Loan & Trust Co.

John P. Ryan was charged by affidavit with feloniously taking the life of James Stapleton, husband of Nellie Stapleton; the latter, by verbal contract, retained George S. Rainey, an attorney at law and appellant herein, to assist in the prosecution; as one of the witnesses testified, Rainey was employed to act as attorney “until the case was finished, until it was brought to a conclusion.” After his employment, Rainey was appointed a deputy prosecutor for that particular case. Shortly before the trial, Nellie O’Neal Stapleton died, and the Lafayette Loan and Trust Company was appointed…