Head v. Hargrave
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Arizona. This was an action brought iñ a district court of .Arizona to recover the sum of -$2,0Q0 alleged to be owing by the defendants-to the plaintiffs for professional services as attorneys and counsellors-at-law in that Territory in 1877. and 1878. The complaint alleges that the services wére performed,in several-suits and proceedings, upon a retainer by the^ defendants; and that they were reasonably worth that sum.
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Error to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Arizona. This was an action brought iñ a district court of .Arizona to recover the sum of -$2,0Q0 alleged to be owing by the defendants-to the plaintiffs for professional services as attorneys and counsellors-at-law in that Territory in 1877. and 1878. The complaint alleges that the services wére performed,in several-suits and proceedings, upon a retainer by the^ defendants; and that they were reasonably worth that sum. The answer is a general denial. On the trial, one of the plaintiffs testified to the rendition of the services by them in…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Field,
after. stating the case,, delivered the opinion of the court.
The defendants in error object.to the use of the statement, which sets forth the exceptions taken, as not constituting á part of the record before us. The ground of the objection is, that the statement was prepared "for .and used on"the motion for a new trial, with the "disposition of which this court cannot interfere. The objection would be tenable but for the "stipulation of the parties that the statement might be used on appeal from the judgment. A statement of the ease, according to the law regulating" civil…
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