Evening journal., 1914-05-21
IN COURT
TO COLLECT BIC FEE.
Salisbury a d Morris Ask
$20,350 From Fibre
Company
CLAIM FOR LEGAL
SERVICE RENDERED

In Superior Court this morning a
jury was drawn to try the case of
Willard Salisbury and Hugh NJ. Nor
ris, late trading under the firm name
of Salisbury and Morris and Arthur
j. Selfridge VS.. the American Vulcan
lied Fibre Company James l. Boyce
represented the plaintiffs and John p.
Nields and William S. Hilles repre-
sented the defendant company
The case was brought to recover the
amount of 20 per cent. of $1O1 ,75O.
amounting to $20,350 which the plin-
tiffs allege is due them from the de-
fendant company for legal services
rendered
Mr. Boyce, in opening the case ex-
planned to the jury that on April 8,
1913, the American Vulcanized Fibre
Company at a meeting passed a res
olution retaining the law firm of
Salisbury and Morris and Arthur }.
Selfridge, of the Boston bar, to rep
resent them In a litigation I'm the
Court of Chancery, which involved
matters extended back to 1905. This
resolution was delivered to the plain
tiff on April 3, the following day, in
the form of a certified copy, author
izing the plaintiffs to proceed with the
case and instructing them to take
whatever steps they deemed neces-
sary.
On June 6, Mr.. Boyce explained. the
suit was filed in the Court of Chan
Gerry of the American Vulcanized
Fibre Company VS.. Mary Il. Taylor.
a relative Of the deceased president of
the company.
On July ., a contract was entered
into between the plaintiffs and the
American Vulcanized Fibre Company
whereby the latter company was to
pay to the attorneys all their neces-
sary expenses in conducting the case
in the Court OF Chancery, and the
amount of 500 a day remuneration
for each day spent in conducting the
case, this amount to be paid from
time to time. II was stipulated in. the
contract that should an extremely
large amount be recovered in the case
that 20 per cent. of the amount would
exceed the total amount of the var
ious sums of 800 paid and that the
defendant company should pay to the
PLAINTIFF the difference between the
total of the 500 sums and the 20 per
cent. of the amount recovered.
On January Z. 1911, in the Court of
Chancery the Chancellor ordered
Mary e. Taylor, the defendant In the
case conducted by Salisbury and
Morris, to pay to the American Vul-
oanized Fibre Company the sum of
100000; $4,000 to be in cash and
$4,000 in capital stock of the com
pany, and also to release the interest
and dividends due on this stock.
which amounted to $1,750, making a
total Of S101,75O. won for the Ameri-
can Vulcanized Fibre Company
through the legal services rendered
by the plaintiffs. OF this sum. Mr..
Boyce stated, not one cent had been
paid, the American Vulcanized Fibre
Company having failed to pay any of
the 500 sums stipulated IN the agree
ment. The plaintiff therefore asked
for 20 per cent of the entire s1O1 $50
amounting to S20,350.
A number of books, documents and
papers owned by the defendant com
pany were produced in court. and Mr.
Hilles raised a point as to whether such
books and documents should be admit
ted as evidence after inspection when
produced by order of the court. He OBJ
iected TO their being produced in evi-
dence.
After considerable time was spent in