Timberlake v. Crosby

The plaintiff has obtained a verdict of 1107.50, for a balance which he claims is due him for professional services and disbursements. We are forced to the conclusion that this verdict is clearly wrong and must be set aside. Lawyers, like other professional men, are required to possess and exercise a reasonable amount of knowledge and skill. And when a lawyer is employed to assist in the collection of a debt, and, through ignorance of a plain and well settled rule of law, he makes twenty writs when only one is necessary, he can not recover for the writs nor for term fees in the suits thus…