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Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JAMES ROGERS vs. JOHN RANDEL, Jr.
    Assumpsit lies for an attorney’s fee.
    Assumpsit for compensation for professional services as a lawyer.
    In this case the plaintiff recovered two thousand one hundred and eighty four dollars, for services rendered as attorney and counsel for the defendant in the cases of Randel vs. Wright; Randel vs. The Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, and other cases growing out of them.
    The declaration was on a special contract, with a quantum meruit count; on which last the recovery was had, the plaintiff having failed to prove the special contract.
    
      Booth and J. A. Bayard, for plaintiff.
    
      Frame, R. li. Bayard and Wales, for defendant.