Rockwood v. Miller

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from a decree in the Supreme Court of the District sustaining a motion to dismiss the bill (plaintiffs Meeting to stand thereon), in which' plaintiffs sought to. recover on a quantum meruit under a contract of employment entered into with Gebruder Stollwerck Aktiengesellschaft on November 16, 1914; the court ruling that plaintiffs’ claim is not a debt, within the meaning of section 9 of the Trading with the Enemy Act (40 Stat. 419 [Comp. St. 1918, Comp. St. Ann. Supp. 1919, § 3115%e]).

*342In their bill the plaintiffs, who are attorneys, allege that they, were…