Roush v. Layton

Action by the appell.ee Layton against Mary E. Long, Andrew J. Roush, the/ appellant, and Erasmus M. Weaver.

It is alleged in the complaint, that “ on the 24th day of June, 1869, in the common pleas of said county, Mary E. Long, by her next friend, Thomas Earl, recovered a judgment against the appellee Layton for five hundred dollars, for an alleged seduction of said Mary E. Long; that said Roush entered a lien thereon, as the attorney of said Mary E. Long, for two hundred and fifty dollars, for his fee, and after-wards assigned two hundred and forty dollars of the amount to said Weaver.”

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