Meguire v. Corwine
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
The plaintiff in the court below is the plaintiff in error here.
The first count of the declaration avers that in consideration of the assistance to be rendered by him to the defendants’ testator in procuring him to be appointed special counsel of the United States in certain litigated cases known as the “ Farragut prize cases,” and also in consideration of the assistance to be rendered by the plaintiff in managing and carrying on .the defence in those cases, — which assistance was accordingly rendered, — .the testator promised the plaintiff to pay him one-half of all fees which the testator…
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