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TAYLOR v. BEMISS

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110 U.S. 42 (1884)

3 S.Ct. 441

28 L.Ed. 64

TAYLOR & Another, v. BEMISS & Others by their next Friend. BEMISS & Others by their next Friend, v. TAYLOR & Another. BEMISS, v. BEMISS & Others by their next Friend.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1884.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George S. Boutwell for Taylor and Another.

Mr. Enoch Totten for Mrs. Bemiss and the minor children.

Mr. Frank T. Browning for Laura J. Bemiss.

MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

Laura J. Bemiss, widow of John Bemiss, having a claim against the United States pending before the commission commonly called the Southern Claims Commission, under the act of March 3d, 1871, employed George Taylor and F.C. Wood, attorneys-at-law, residing in Washington city, to prosecute said claim, and by an instrument in writing agreed to give them fifty per cent. of the amount which might be recovered. The...

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