Mazureau v. Morgan

This suit was instituted on the twenty-ñfth of April, 1832. It is based upon a contract, by which the defendants agreed to pay plaintiffs, for professional services, as attorneys and counselors-at-law, one-third of whatever sum might be gained by suit or compromise, of certain claims against the widow and heirs of Price ; but in ease of defeat on the claims, the defendants were not bound to pay them anything.

The statute of 1808 enacted, “that any bargain or agreement with a plaintiff or defendant on the event of any suit to receive any portion of the land or any other property that may be in…