MR. JUSTICE SWAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiff in the court below is the plaintiff in error here.
The first count of the declaration avers that in consideration of the assistance to be rendered by him to the defendants' testator in procuring him to be appointed special counsel of the United States in certain litigated cases known as the "Farragut prize cases," and also in consideration of the assistance to be rendered by the plaintiff...
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