Reeder v. Cargill
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Independence Circuit Court; R. E. Jeffery, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This suit was instituted by appellant, Reeder, the surviving partner of the firm of Wright & Reeder, to recover the sum of $81 with interest, alleged to be due for services rendered by them as attorneys in defending the appellee, who was convicted in the Independence Circuit Court of the crime of grand larceny. He appealed, and the judgment of conviction was affirmed.
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Appeal from Independence Circuit Court; R. E. Jeffery, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. This suit was instituted by appellant, Reeder, the surviving partner of the firm of Wright & Reeder, to recover the sum of $81 with interest, alleged to be due for services rendered by them as attorneys in defending the appellee, who was convicted in the Independence Circuit Court of the crime of grand larceny. He appealed, and the judgment of conviction was affirmed. The firm of which Wright was then a member, and of which Reeder afterwards became a member, represented him in both courts, and the testimony…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts). The testimony of appellant Reeder and of witness Matheny tends to prove that the alleged claim for which this suit was brought would not be due until the appellee had returned from the penitentiary after serving the term of his imprisonment. According to this testimony, appellee and Wright had in contemplation that appellee would serve his term in the penitentiary, and that the balance of the fee claimed by Wright would not be due until the year for which he was sentenced had expired, or at least until the time that he should legally serve under the…
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