The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-26
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Senator Carlisle's fee OF s25, 200, which
he is to receive in the Preston-Beal case,
decided in the court of appeals at Frank
fort, KY, the other day, recalled to
New York lawyer some of the large
fees that have been paid to attorneys.
From him gathered these facts. Judge
Brown, of Memphis, also in q Kentucky
case, received a fee OF $4,000. This
was the case of r. Fl. Brown against
Alexander Tinsley, and was contested
by the people of MuMenberg county,
Ky.s to avoid the payment of county
bonds to the amount of s400, onn, with
accrued interest issued in 1869, in aid of
the Elizabethtown and Paducah Rail
road Company. The whole amount in
volved in the suit was something over
100000 The case in which Senator
Carlisle won his big fee made the heirs
of Robert Wiclzliffe richer to the ex-
tent Of $1,000 Gen. Draper, of New
Jersey, is married to one of these heirs,
and it was as the representative of Mrs.
Draper that Senator Carlisle came into
the case, and his fee comes entirely
from her portion of the estate. am
told that the senator did not even make
an exhaustive study of the case, but
made his argument at Frankfort from
briefs Fled by the attorneys for other
heirs.
To do this required his presence in
Frankfort five days, and this is said to
have been all the time he had to devote
to the case, so that his big earnings
were as much per day as q member of
congress receives for year Of heavy
brain fag for his country and the old
fag-not counting perquisites. But
Senator Carlisle is not the only states
man who has made a good-sized fee in a
law case. The decision Of the United
States supreme court was handed down
something over a year ago In the Fiske
will case against the Cornell university.
In this case the university lost 81, $50, 600,
and the law firm OF HiM &c Bacon is said
to have received s4oo, 900 as their hon
orariu1n from the successful heirs. The
Mr. Hill in this Arn is none other than
Senator David Bennett Hill, now, or
until lately, candidate for president.
Bacon instituted this suit eight or ten
years ago, when he WAS praeticing law
with Fill in Elnira, and he used TO
say il he won the case he and his part
ner would have all the money they
wanted for the rest of their lives. His
one ambition was to own newspaper
in New York. AS Mr.. Bacon has not
appeared here upon the journalistic
scene, and as it is understood that his
law firm has received the big fee, the
presumption is that he has changed his
mind in regard to the newspaper. The
fee which John e. Parsons, the New
York lawyer, received for organizing
the sugar trust is believed to be the
largest ever paid to one New York at
torney. The amount was $500, 900, the
same sum received by Messrs. Hill and
Bacon in the Fisle case. And yet, not
withstanding this large fee, it did not
take the courts long, once they got
at it, to destroy the apparently
lnvincible legal structure which
the able and high-p-iccd lawyer
had reared. Mr. Parsons is getting
along well in years, but he continues
to retain his close resemblance to Ralph
Waldo Emerson. He appears but rare
ly in the courts, but always in connec-
ton with some big corporation case.
The smashing OF the Sugar trust in the
courts and the voluntary dissolution Of
the Standard Oh trust will no doubt
have depressing influence upon the
expensive legal business of organizing
trusts, A very snug fee was claimed by
ex-Judge George M. Curtis and George
s. HastinQa .Sor their services in the