Case Name: SEGUNDO CADIERNO v. MATEO RUCABADO
Court: United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1912-12-10
Citations: 6 P.R. Fed. 146
Docket Number: No. 914
Parties: SEGUNDO CADIERNO v. MATEO RUCABADO.
Judges: 
Reporter: Porto Rico Federal Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 146–146

Head Matter:
SEGUNDO CADIERNO v. MATEO RUCABADO.
San Juan,
Law,
No. 914.
A motion for an allowance of an attorney’s fee will be denied, where it ia not prayed for with sufficient definiteness.
Opinion filed December 10, 1912.
Messrs.. Miguel Guerra and Hugh B. Francis for plaintiff.
Messrs..Antonio Alvarez Nava and Jorge Dominguez for defendant.

Opinion:
Ci-iaRI/toh, Judge,
delivered the following opinion:
The motion for an allowance of an attorney's fee will he denied on the ground that it was not prayed for with sufficient definiteness. When counsel have desired them, they have prayed for their reasonable attorneys' fees, at the discretion of the court; and I think only twice since I have been on this bench have I granted attorneys' fees, and in each case they were specifically prayed for in the ordinary way. So I do not think, under the statute and under the phraseology of the pleading, that attorneys' fees could be held to be expenses in the manner in which that word was intended.