Sellers v. Phillips

Appellee was a party to a suit in the Circuit Court involving the compensation or price to be given to him for some eighty acres of land, and a decree was entered which he thought adverse to his interest. He prayed an appeal therefrom to the Supreme Court of the State, which was allowed, and thereupon he engaged the professional services of the appellant in this case,- E. H. Sellers, for the prosecution of the appeal.

The petition of appellant in this case alleges that Phillips “did then and there agree, that if your petitioner would give him, the said Phillips, his professional services in…