Town of Bruce v. Dickey

This was an action brought by T. Lyle Dickey, against the town of Bruce, to recover for professional services as an attorney at law.

The leading facts appearing are, that about the year 1870, various towns along the line of the Ottawa, Oswego and Fox Biver Valley railroad, and the county of Kendall, had issued their bonds to aid in the construction of that road, aggregating some $400,000, the bonds purporting to be issued under the act of the legislature of February 18, 1857. In 1871, and afterward, the plaintiff in this suit became employed as an attorney in various suits to defeat the…