Bull v. Thomas B. St. Johns
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint. Motion for new trial. Decided by Judge Pope. Troup Superior Court. November Term, 1868. In October, 1867, Judge Orville A. Bull sued St. Johns for $300 00, for professional services in a cause of Thomas B. St. Johns vs. John T. Pullen, executor of Hogair& John Shanks, to-wit: filing the bill, Shank’s answer thereto, etc. Pending the action plaintiff died, and his wife, as his executrix, was made plaintiff.
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Complaint. Motion for new trial. Decided by Judge Pope. Troup Superior Court. November Term, 1868. In October, 1867, Judge Orville A. Bull sued St. Johns for $300 00, for professional services in a cause of Thomas B. St. Johns vs. John T. Pullen, executor of Hogair& John Shanks, to-wit: filing the bill, Shank’s answer thereto, etc. Pending the action plaintiff died, and his wife, as his executrix, was made plaintiff. The pleas were general issue, and that plaintiff undertook to perform said services at and for $300 00, to be paid in Confederate currency, that plaintiff’s ill health prevented…
1Opinion of the CourtWarner, J.
This was an action brought in the Court below by the plaintiff’s testator, to recover for professional services, as an attorney at law, rendered to the defendant in a suit, which had been instituted and disposed of in Troup Superior Court. On the trial of the case, the plaintiff proved that the professional services rendered the defendant in that suit by her testator, were reasonably worth, at least, $125 00; some of the witnesses proved them to have been worth more. It also appeared in evidence, that, owing to the feeble health of the plaintiff’s testator, he was unable to complete the…
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