Dickerman v. Burgess

The bill in this case, originally filed by Alden Thomas in his lifetime, and revived by the complainants, who are his legal representatives, alleges dealings between him and one of the defendants, H. 0. Stone, for several years, a suit by Stone against him, and a judgment in March, 1850, in favor of Stone, for forty-five dollars. That William T. Burgess, another defendant, was the attorney of Stone, to whom Thomas paid the amount due, except fifteen dollars which Burgess claimed as Ms fees for collection, and which, by an arrangement between Mm and Burgess, was to be the only question of…