Dixon County v. Gantt

This is an action founded on an oral contract between the plaintiff in error and the firm of Gantt & Norris, wherein said plaintiff in error employed said firm of Gantt & Norris to bring suit on the official bond of R. H. Knapp, a defaulting county treasurer of Dixon county, Nebraska. In consideration of said contract said firm of Gantt & Norris commenced suit on said bond. After said case had been commenced, the same was compromised between'the county and said R. H. Knapp, and his bondsmen and the county took certain lands of said R. H. Knapp, and his bondsmen paid the sum of $2,000, and…