Balsbaugh v. Frazer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Dauphin county. This was an action on the case, to January Term, 1851, by Balsbaugh, administrator of the estate of Catharine Mohler, deceased, v. -- Frazer, to recover certain moneys collected by defendant as an attorney at law. The plea of payment, &c., was put in, and the plea, of non assumpsit was added during the trial.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Dauphin county. This was an action on the case, to January Term, 1851, by Balsbaugh, administrator of the estate of Catharine Mohler, deceased, v. -- Frazer, to recover certain moneys collected by defendant as an attorney at law. The plea of payment, &c., was put in, and the plea, of non assumpsit was added during the trial. A verdict was rendered for defendant for $41.54. ITannes Mohler, by his will in 1813, devised certain land to his son John, charged with ¿6500, in favor of his wife Catharine, of which' she was to receive the interest annually during her…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court, filed was delivered by
Black, C. J.
The defendant in error, who was also defendant below, is an attorney-at-law. He collected certain moneys for the plaintiff’s intestate, after a long and difficult proceeding in the Orphans’ Court of Lancaster county, and afterwards in the Supreme Court, which he and other gentlemen concerned with him, conducted with diligence, skill, and success. After deducting from the amount he received what he claimed as a compensation for his own services, and what he had paid to his associates for theirs, he paid to his client the balance; and…
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