Heath v. Bates
Supreme Court of Connecticut
CrviL action for the recovery of fees due the plaintiff as an officer for the service of writs placed in his hands for service by the defendant, an attorney-at-law; brought originally before a justice of the peace, and by the defendant -appealed to the Court of Common Pleas, and in that court tried to the jury before Sail, J. Verdict for the plaintiff and motion for a new trial by the defendant. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPark, C. J.
The plaintiff, a deputy sheriff, sued the defendant, an attorney at law, for fees due him for the service of writs placed in his hands for service by the defendant. The plaintiff claimed that the placing of the writs in his hands for service, constituting a request that he should serve them, raised an implied contract on the part of the defendant to pay his fees for the service. The defendant claimed that in such a ease there was no implied agreement to pay the fees, but that, as he was an attorney, acting for his clients, and they were known to the plaintiff, the clients only were liable to…
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