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CONSAUL v. CUMMINGS

No. 38.

222 U.S. 262 (1911)

32 S.Ct. 83

56 L.Ed. 192

CONSAUL ET AL, ADMINISTRATORS OF MOYERS, v. CUMMINGS, ADMINISTRATOR OF EDMONDS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 11, 1911.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. A.S. Worthington and Mr. Charles F. Consaul, with whom Miss Ida N. Moyers was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Charles Cowles Tucker, with whom Mr. J. Miller Kenyon was on the brief, for appellee.

MR. JUSTICE LAMAR, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.

In this accounting of the affairs of a special partnership between attorneys at law, the survivor claims compensation for services rendered after dissolution of the firm.

Claims of this sort are not favored. They lead to efforts to prove a disparity between the partners, when the law implies equality. They necessitate a balancing of the value of the work of each in...

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