Perkins v. . Hill

The referee found as facts that the plaintiff performed professional services for the defendant, to the amount alleged in the complaint — $2,161. That of such services, those which were rendered before the 1st of January, 1869, were worth $600, and those rendered after the last day of December, 1868, were worth $1,561.

The necessity of thus apportioning the plaintiff's claim arose from the fact that on the last day of December, 1868, the plaintiff filed his petition in bankruptcy, under which he afterward obtained a discharge from his debts. So much, therefore, of his claim as accrued prior to…