In re Chittenden

Mr. Hargous was employed by the petitioner in the year 1872 to procure, if possible, a release of the petitioner’s lands from certain assessments which had been laid upon them by the city of New York. The employment was made “under a written contract by which the appellant was to receive for his services twenty-five per cent of the amount which he should succeed in getting released as a lien upon the lands, without any expense of legal proceedings to the petitioner. In the year 1874, nothing having at that time been accomplished by the attorney by way of removing the liens, the petitioner…