Manning v. Leland
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by an attorney at law to recover for professional services and for disbursements in prosecuting an Alabama claim. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Sherman, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows.
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Contract by an attorney at law to recover for professional services and for disbursements in prosecuting an Alabama claim. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Sherman, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. It appeared that the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims had rendered judgment upon the claim in question in favor of Benjamin P. Sherman as complainant, and of the defendant as beneficiary ; and that the defendant received a draft from the United States Treasurer in payment of his claim as such beneficiary. The plaintiff testified that he was…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The plaintiff’s exceptions are confined wholly to four rulings, which he requested the court to make, and which the court declined to give. The exceptions do not purport to contain all the evidence introduced at the trial, nor all *512of the evidence bearing upon the rulings which the plaintiff requested. The judge who tried the case made certain findings of fact, and the question is not whether these findings of fact were justified by the evidence, with which we cannot deal, but whether, in view of the findings of fact and so much of the evidence as is reported, the court rightly refused the…
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