The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-12-20
0. B. BOyce Estate Gets Judg-
ment Against H. 0. Camp
IN WESTERN LAND SALE
Patrick 0'connsli Pays $50 PR Wait
70 Attorney A. A. Sargent BY Order
Of 'rry-Judgment In Gas
Company Case.

Judgment has been rendered In city
court by Judge Scott for the plaintiff
70 recover In che suit Of William A.
Boyce, administrator Of thc Osman b.
Hoyee estate, Va II. o. Camp. the ease
having grown out Of real estate ven.
ture in Muncle, Indiana, made BY
party Of Vcrmonters many years ago.
Iloyce sued for hia brother 0sman's dls.
tribute share Of the eompany's receipts
following the winding.up o. the business
in 1901. che land having been disposcd
Of. Camp was agent for the company,
In which there were j. G. Brown Of
Montpelier, Homer Fits, H. q. Camp.
.. b. Boyce, o. C. Clement and Il. l.
Clark and others.
In bringing his main defense. Camp
put In 4 large account against the law
firm Of Boyee a Royce and advanced
the claim that the plaintiff had agreed
70 allow the Osman Boyce share In the
real estate company 90 20 IN Offset OF
the bill against Boyee a Boyres also
pleading the statute Of limitation. The
plaintiff denied any agreement with
Camp 10 allow such Offset. The court
allowed the claim OF the plaintiff, plus
the interest, making q total Of Sl4i.42
Growing out of this case are two other
suits, one By Boyce against Camp a.
agent for the land company for attor-
ney's fees, amounting to sls.dl, and the
other by Camp against Boyce to recover
on the account claim against the former
professional partnership OF Boyce &
Boyce. the business OF which was con
ducted by William A. Boycc following
tho death Of Osman In 1895.
Another legal tangle Of long standing
has Just been settled in court, the suit
OF Albert A. Sargent against Patrick
O'Connell for attorneys fees, and in this
case it was determined that ST so is a
reasonable amount for an attorney to
charge for advice The case has It's
foundation in 1900. when OConneif
sought legal advice to secure the return
Of derrick which, he claimed, had been
wrongfully taken from him. He went
TO Attorney Sargent several times, ac-
eording to his own admission in court,
but, as he testified. he was trying to
find out what the attorney would charge
MN LOT his services.
He went on 20 state that he finally
went to Attorney Sargent and told him
that he considered his fees too high and
that he would like the return Of the
papers placed in his hands; whereupon
the attorney surrendered the papers.
This fall--six years later-the attorney
wrote the defendant at Gloucester, Mass,
stating that be was cleaning up some of
the accounts on his books and would
like him t0'Connelll to settle up, claim +,
ing sl.50 each time that he talked with
O'Connell Hence the suit in Barre city
court this week.
Sargent sued for three calls, making
$3.50, besides interest. The only wit
ness outside the parties TO the suit was
Attorney E. L. Scott, who was called
upon for his opinion as to the reason
ableness Of $1.60 for legal talk. In
asmuch as the defendant admitted the
talks, although he said he was trying
10 find out the attorneys fees, and since
witness Scott said Sl.50 was all right,
The Jury returned verdict for the plain
5iff to recover that amount for three
5alks, the whole amounting, with inter
st. to S6l0. O'Connell was also called
lpon to pay the costs, which were also
s6.IO, the costs being limited by law to
he amount Of the suit. Peally the ex-
,enses Of the trial amounted to between
10 and $40. II is supposed that the
1arious claimants for the costs made an
,oilitable division, pro rata.
SO 0'ConDell has found out the cost
or legal advice.
Judge Waterman Of Washington coun-
u court rendered Judgment for the plain
lit iii the suit OF Davis n Farnham
Manufacturing company vs. II. X. DUN
jar q Co, or Peoples Lighting, Heating
md Power company Of Barre, trustee,
o recover Sl0,074.56. The plaintiff com
ANY, which sold material to Dunbar,
,romoter for the gas plant, To the
mount Of $4,000, sued Dunbar and
rusteed the Peoples Gas company.
A commissioners hearing on the mat
er was held before Zed s. Stanton, who
To county court, with the result
hat the court ordered Judgment, on his
ndings. for the plaintiff, as noted above.
he trustees are j. j. Flynn, A. Q. Hum
hrey and Il. g. Rowland. The case will
} to Supreme court on exceptions. John
i. Gordon appeared for Davis q Farm
am. and Richard A. Hoar Of Barre and
!. Il. Brown of Burlington for the gas