Watterston v. Webb

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the court of the Eighth Judicial District dismissing the plaintiff’s petition, on the ground that his action could not be maintained because it was founded upon a litigious right purchased by him, he being an attorney at law practising in the court before which the right was to fre enforced. The plaintiff has taken this appeal. It appears that a judgment was rendered in the late court of Probates of St. Helena against Webb, as administrator of the succession of Stephenson, from which an appeal was…