Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24
BE A GOOD LAWYER
AND GET RICH QUICK
Some Big Fees Paid to Men who Labor
With Their Brains Instead of
Their Hands.

One of the largest single fees ever
paid to a lawyer was the 81, 00O,-
600 which James B. Dill of New |
York received for settling the dis
putes which arose between Andrew !
Carnegie and Henry G. Prick over
the transfer of the properties merg- |
ed in the United States Steel Corpo-
ration. Mr.. Dill, however, as OBJ |
served by the Van Norden maya
zine, has now given up his stu
pendous corporation fees for the
small annual salary of judge.
A fee only 5000, 600 less than Mr..
Dill's was paid to another New
York lawyer, William D. Guthrie,
who received $500, 600 for breaking
the will of Henry B. Plant, owner
of the Plant system of steamships,
railways and hotels. The Plant
estate was valued at $24, 900, 900,
the Widows share of which was
$4,000, coo, and this having been
tied up in trust she engaged the
lawyer to bring suit for its release.
His fee represented 10 per cent of
her share.
Joseph A. Choate, before his APP
pointment as Ambassador to Great
Britain, received $500, 600 for
single argument before the United
States Supreme Court, the effect of
which was that the income tax law
was declared unconstitutional. AS
Ambassador at London Mr.. Choate's
salary was $18, 900.
Among other large fees of law
yers may be mentioned 500, 900
received by John E. Parsons of
New York for drawing a single
deed, $40, 600 charged by D. B.
Hill for making a single argument
in the Molineux case, 500, 900
formerly received yearly by Chaun-
cey M. Depew from the New York
Central Railroad company and $40,
600 as a retainer from the Equit-
able Life; more than $500, 600 a
year until recently earned by w.
d III nc AOChl llOill SOAioNAANotAO
practice, and the many thousands of
dollars paid to Samuel Untermyer
as counsel in the shipyard litiga-
ton and in recent insurance cases.
The fee of $50, 900 and travelling
expenses which was paid to DR..
Adoplh Lorenz of Vienna to treat
Lolita Armour for congenital hip
dislocation was much less than
has frequently been paid abroad by
royalty. King Edward when Prince
of Wales once paid a physician
$50, 900 for four weeks services.
The fee of $1,000, which a New
York dentist charged Prince Louis
of Battenberg when the latter Wis
tied this country with his fleet 6
year ago, was much commented
upon. For a dentists fee the sun
was undoubtedly large, but as COM
pared with some physicians fees
it looks insignificant.
Probably the record for large
fees of this class is held by DR.
Walter c. Browning of Philadel'
phia, who sent to the executors o.
the estate of Senator c. L. Maget
a pill for $3.50, 600. Explaining his
charge, Mr.. Browning said that hi
ordinary charge for consultation IL
his office is $40 an hour, and out
side the office $40 an hour. Thes'
rates, he said, Sentaor Magee hat
voluntarily agreed to double.
Baltimore, the seat OF Johns Hop
kins University, noted for its out
put of physicians, has contribute
largely to the list of big fees 70
doctors. Prof. Howard A. Kelly c
Johns Hopkins hospital receive
$4,000 for twenty-one days treat
ment of the wife of mine owner
Prof. A. McLane Tiffany of tn
same city was paid $40, 600 for per
forming an operation on a Ne'
York patient, and Prof. J.. w
Chambers received $4,000 for oper
ating on deputy warden who ha
been stabbed by prisoner. Me-
York Sun.