Newlin v. Ackley
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 121, Oct. T., 1897, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Bucks Co., E'eb. T., 1893, No. 18, in favor of plaintiff as to a portion of his claim but dismissing plaintiff’s exceptions to the report of the referee rejecting a portion of plaintiff’s claim. Foreign attachment.
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Appeal, No. 121, Oct. T., 1897, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Bucks Co., E'eb. T., 1893, No. 18, in favor of plaintiff as to a portion of his claim but dismissing plaintiff’s exceptions to the report of the referee rejecting a portion of plaintiff’s claim. Foreign attachment. Before Yerkes, P. J. It appears from the record that this was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover from defendant for professional services two separate sums, to wit: one of $250 and one of $750. The case was referred to J. Percy Keating, who found for the plaintiff as to the former sum and no exception…
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Smith, J.,
The plaintiff, an attorney at law, brought this action to recover for professional services performed for the defendant in certain legal proceedings instituted in the United States circuit court, and another suit in the court of common pleas of Philadelphia. Upon a reference under the act of May 14,1874, the plaintiff’s claim for services in the latter case was allowed, and his claim for services in the suit in the federal court was wholly disallowed. Exceptions to the report of the referee, filed on behalf of the plaintiff, were dismissed by the court below ; whereupon…
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