The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-10-21
E{NYEES FEES RUN
LARGE IN Big CASES
Bat Average Attorney Fees
Have Small Tendency
Toward Millionaires.

sssrf SfxeF the fee and we get a
sxEizanse behind the curtain. The
s1ffsE month in New York the lawyers
waa Rad brought suit against the di-
rpran-s of the New York, New Haven
q Ezar3 ford Railroad were allowed a
fss "a. xso9 10000 when the case was
ssesxsa Iur S2,5eo, 900. Not long after,
IN C-n,.ago, in the suit brought by
FPagsy zniarhh to obtain share of the
Tars Henry Fields interest in the
ESe4d R1ir ions for her three-year-old
say. che total amount of attorneys
fses allowed was 100000. OF this
Se2s. BRb went to Elihu Root, Stanch-
Sfesa zod Levy and their associates,
s-csop-pnEing Marshall Field, 3rd. Still
asez7z recently counsel who effected
aBss nacu cement of the SIS 900 1000 es-
raGs 81 Jacques Lebaudy, self-styled
~sEszEerer of Sahara" were allowed
sha aggregate amount of $4,000 in
fegs
sssazsa OF the record fees of an ear
RiqE s9gg were that of Joseph H. Cho-
ate n 1he marlborough Street Rail-
WIZ Company case amounting to
$IsSEG0, and Henry l.. Clinton's
SSaa. asD fee in the Commodore Van
aEHxxdat win case. 1t is said that Will
1Izzz II Vanderbilt complained that
Glrtsun's Zee was excessive and said
<Sas. wuless it was reduced he would
xevsr again employ him. To this
ChEr0n ratorted: "Your future re-
aaSragz5 are matters of indifference to
me. 1stcHnse when you pay me my
aeg. J expect to retire"
TE nN Landmarks of a Lawyers
gds- Igme,o published in 1914, The
rgn T. strong mentions as the largest
Tee . TO that date one of 100000,
xzrsszei by lawyer from one of the
sznsixsnr clies of New York state ''for
SNs defense of a western magnate in
a. GrEmInsl prosecution, growing out
s7E NsS administration of one of our
4asAS~' Although Mr.. Strong men
zlczg she name of neither the lawyer
xaor Ine. case he, no doubt, refers to
aae Eea paid John b. Stanchfield for
eaeYs Blihg Augustus Heinze, tried for
z1ylHxsd transportation of the
RAS35z of the Mercantile National
I3sExss
Daring the last two decades the
1assS prolific source of large fees has
na2 been iifigated cases. but corpor-
aSis promotions and reorganizatiOns.
xsog SERVICES of this kind during pc
rSoz al IL days Francis Lynde Stet-
.sur rand Victor Morawetz are report
ssIa rs have received fee of $50O,000
IN. connection with the sale of the
Ca1xzsgie steel properties. These
s1rss dwarf into comparative insight
Siczzsse what was in an earlier day
considered an enormous fee-that of
$z5. $50 allowed Benjamin F. Butler
IH the Farragut prize cases.
= The amounts mentioned are well
B1Eshgmticated. but the fees of promi-
Eex2 and successful lawyers are Of
6nx Exugg erated. It was repeatedly
szlz Shat Joseph H. Choate received
$SsS mo for arguing the income tax
G-a@ss before the Supreme Court OF
tns United States, but he told Henry
IN. Tsft that the actual amount of the
Gsc WAS $4,000
10 matter how busy and successful
. lawyer may be, fees of this size are
no9 AN everyday occurrence, sim
gSe szindfall will sometimes equal
sss1s,h . lawyers total income for two
or inTee ordinary years. Judge Hen
ry Rogers of the United States Cir
cGJz Court of Appeals of the Second
Circuit says: at is pretty generally
sseHEyed by the well informed that in
Nssyv YHTE city few lawyers enjoy a
uVgteSsional income of 100000 or
more "a year A somewhat larger
nSnaIpr make 100000 a year But
On uEmber who do this is not large"
Tsond Bryce in 1913 said he had heard
0Z Individual American lawyers earn
SIg G29R 300 or more, but thought
abzi mot more than 80 counsel in
The whole country make by their
Ei2aysssion more than $4,000 a
year" One of these lawyers, Max d
sstsEry. q few weeks ago made an af-
fJdaYii in e0urt proceeding in which
hF stared that for the past several
yfszfs he had earned an average Of
Slspt hay for three hundred days
TeaE-
Compare these sums with the fees
gsAnectec soy The brilliant lawyers of
IA aarly days At the outbreak of
Tss Revolution Luther Martin of Ma /
ySs1lni was making $4,000 a year A.,
'ThUHas jefferson's annual income
from Siis law practice was about S3,-
Gop. 1ohn Marshall, who In 1895
hna fht largest practice in Virginia, !
..,cI ruen Sl 600 Alexander Hamilton