Ransom v. Cutting
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Robert L. Cutting, from a judgment of the Supreme .Court in favor of the plaintiffs, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of ¡New York on the 8th day of July, 1905, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the ¡New York Special Term.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
In January, 1894, one Robert L. Cutting died leaving a will by which he gave all of his, property, with the exception of an annuity *151to his widow, to otie of his sons, James De Wolfe Cutting. The other son,, Robert L. Cutting, the appellant, feeling that he had been unjustly treated and that the instrument offered for probate' did not correctly express his father’s wish, retained the plaintiffs, a firm of lawyers, to oppose the probate of the will. -He was unable financially to pay the plaintiffs, and for the purpose of securing them for the services to be rendered in his…
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