Hardin v. Manry

Wyatt, Presiding Justice.

1. The declaration in attachment sets up that the defendants in attachment are indebted to the plaintiff in attachment in the sum of $10,000 by reason of a contract of employment contained in a letter addressed to him and signed by the two defendants. The letter reads as follows: “This is to certify that we have employed B. H. Manry as our attorney to represent us to recover our interests from H. H. Hardin et al. in the land and timber of the W. R. Thornton estate, in Lamar and Monroe Counties, Georgia. We agree to pay said Manry for his services one-third of the land…