Squier v. Barnes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on an account annexed by an attorney at law for compensation for professional services and for money expended by him for the defendant. Writ dated May 9,1904. The defendant filed an answer, and also a declaration in set-off. In the Superior Court in June, 1905, the defendant was defaulted, and in October, 1905, the case came on for the assessment of damages before Hitchcock, J. Upon the motion of the defendant damages were assessed by a jury.
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Contract on an account annexed by an attorney at law for compensation for professional services and for money expended by him for the defendant. Writ dated May 9,1904. The defendant filed an answer, and also a declaration in set-off. In the Superior Court in June, 1905, the defendant was defaulted, and in October, 1905, the case came on for the assessment of damages before Hitchcock, J. Upon the motion of the defendant damages were assessed by a jury. The jury assessed damages in the sum of $146.70. It did not appear that any order was made as to the disposition of the declaration in set-off.…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This is a petition to prove exceptions. The petitioner first filed a bill of exceptions, within the time prescribed by the statute. He then filed an amended bill as a substitute for the first, and the presiding judge allowed this bill, with three changes, first, an interlineation, by way of amendment, which stated clearly and correctly the facts referred to in the clause in which the interlineation was made, and secondly, a cancellation of two paragraphs, on the ground that the exceptions stated in them were not contained in the original bill, and were not filed in the clerk’s office within…
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