Stilwell v. Otis

By the Court.*—Hilton, J.

—The plaintiffs are practising lawyers, and bring this action to recover the value of their services in drawing an assignment, for the benefit of creditors, executed by James Hammill to John Hammill, and in which the defendants were preferred for the amount owing them by the assignor.

It appears, that after the assignment had been executed and delivered, the defendants proposed to the assignee to transfer all the assigned property to them, in payment of them preferred debt. This offer was made in the presence of the plaintiffs, who acted as counsel for the assignee;…