Carr v. Wilkins & Wall

Roberts, Chief Justice.

This was a suit brought by the . defendants in error, as partners in the practice of the law, to recover a fee founded upon an alleged contract of employment of them as partners, during the existence of. the partnership, to attend to a suit of the plaintiffs in error,.

The plaintiffs in error denied having made such a contract with them, as.. partners, and pleaded specially that they employed Wall before the existence of the said partnership, and pending the suit they, on account of his neglect of. their business, discharged Wall, settled with arid paid *425him in full for…