Gray v. Van Amringe
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the District Court of Allegheny county. H. H. Yan Amringe, Esq. against James Gray. This was an action on the case in assumpsit to recover the amount of an account for professional services as an attorney at law, rendered by the plaintiff to the defendant.
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ERROR to the District Court of Allegheny county. H. H. Yan Amringe, Esq. against James Gray. This was an action on the case in assumpsit to recover the amount of an account for professional services as an attorney at law, rendered by the plaintiff to the defendant. The only question argued in this court arose upon an exception to the opinion of the court in which (Dallas President) charged the jury: “ That if the plaintiff was entitled to recover, the jury might allow interest upon his account.” argued that the nature of the plaintiff’s claim was not such as justified the calculation of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
The only matter assigned in this case for error, that has been pressed, is an exception to the instruction of the court below to the jury on the defendant’s fourth point; which was, that an attorney at law was not entitled to recover interest on his account charging for professional services. The court, however, told the jury that the plaintiff had precisely the same claim to interest upon his account that a mechanic, tradesman or physician had, and that they would be right if they allowed it. In order to decide upon the correctness of this…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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