Livingston v. Cornell

By the Court.

This is a motion for a new trial. The facts, in the case, are as follows:

The plaintiff, having unsuccessfully represented the defendant in a suit on an embargo bond, the penalty of which was the sum of fifteen thousand dollarsm proposed to prosecute a writ of error in the supreme court of the Unites States, The defendant would allow him, in case of success, ten percent or fifteen hundred dollars, and advance one half of that sum for his travelling expences to the city of Washington. The defendant declined to make any advance, but manifested an intention to accept the offer, if…