Parsons v. Hill
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal (specially allowed) by the plaintiff in an action at law, from an order overruling his motion for a judgment by default against the defendant. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
This cause comes here by special appeal; and the question involved in it is one of considerable importance in the practice of the law in this District under existing conditions.
On November 2, 1896, the appellant, Joseph H. Parsons, as plaintiff, instituted a suit at common law against the appellee, Alice S. Hill, as defendant, in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, by filing a declaration in assumpsit to recover from the appellee the sum of ten thousand dollars which he claimed to be due to him for *537professional services rendered to the appellee and another person in the matter of…
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