The Washington bee., 1907-03-30

case indicates tndt money can De made
at the practice of law. Professor Lo-
REM, for his treatment of little Lolita
Armour, receives $4,000. Other recent
instances Of great legal and medical fees
are known, 50 that It appears that fame
is not unattended by money in either
profession.
It was during a discussion of the
general deficiency appropriation bill be-
fore Congress last summer that the
$75ooOo fee for legal services became
known to the public.
Among the items Of the bill was one
to pay the 1ong-deferred claims of the
Cherokee Indians in a land settlement
case. Since 1888 the Indians had vainly
clamored for pay for certain property
of which they had been dispossessed.
With principal and interest, the
amount to be paid the Indians reached
$5,oOo,ooo. It developed that the at
torneys for the red men had been allow
ed IS per cent o. the whole, or nearly
$4,000, for their services, and opposi-
ton was expressed to this charge as
being entirely too much. The claim,
however, went through.
Four years ago, litigation in Phila-
delphia over an attorneys fee attracted
widespread attention. Executors of the
estate of former Judge F. Carroll Brew
ster brought suit against Mrs. Rosalie
Parant Coleman to recover about $7I,-
600 balance of fee of 100000 for legal
services said to have been rendered
Mrs. Coleman by Judge Brewster.
According to statements made, the
sum involved in the preceding litigation
was about 100000, and Judge Brew
ster won his case. 1t had dragged its
way through the courts for seven years.
Some remarkable charges have been
made by physicians OF recent years. In
1902 the claim of DR.. Walter C. Brown
ing of Philadelphia against the estate
of the late Senator Christopher L. Ma
gee, of Pitsburg, was aired in court in
the latter city.
DR.. Browning's claim was for $Ioo,o7o
as payment for services during several
years of Mr.. Magee's illness. During
the trial one of the doctors attorneys
stated that total of $35o,ooo would be
demanded of the estate, the amount
over and beyon dtheer Ugcersmi S.
over and beyond the regular bill being
the proceeds Of cash which Mr.. Magee
was alleged to have invested for his
physician out of gratitude.
One witness in the case testified that |
Senator Magee had confded to him an
to pay DR.. Browning the great
100000. II intend" he was reported as
having said, "to beat Peter Widener's
record. Widener, you know, paid his
Doctor S. ;" Senator Magee, the
witness c .ued, told him that the
DOCTORS charges were $50 an hour in his
3f e and $40 outside.
Judge ]. w. Over, of the Orphans
Court, awarded DrBrowning $2o.23o.25,
which was later increased to $35,I68.G8.
Nest persons will recall the journey
If DR.. Adolf Lorenz, of Vienna, to Chi
ago in 1902, to operate upon the little
laughter of J. Ogden Armour. Later
he distinguished surgeon made sec
md visit. For these trips he was paid
$4,000, not including his expenses.
This large fee of Prof. Lorenz, how
,ver, was exceeded, it is said, by the
amount which Mr.. Flagler paid DR..
Shelton of New York, for curing his
laughter. The gratifed father handed
he eminent specialist securities which
lad a par value of $4,000, but were
worth $4,000 in the open market.
DR.. Galezowsky, of Paris, was paid
$4,000 for curing the second son of
he late shah of. Persia of an affection
IF the eye, while Sir Morrell Macken-
ne, the famous English throat special
st, earned $6o,o3o for his services to
he father of the Emperor Of Germany.
DR.. Anderson Critchett, a famous
london specialist, refused an offer of
$4,000 and expenses to journey to In
Tia for an operation upon a native po-
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