Cage v. Wilkinson

Decided January 15, 1844

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1844-01-15

In error from the Circuit Court of Yazoo county. This was a motion in the Circuit Court of Yazoo, by Plaintiff in Error v. Defendants, as attorneys at law, for failing to pay over money collected by them on a judgment in favor-of P. B. Pope, a bankrupt, (and whose assignee plaintiff in error is,) v. B. R. Grayson, for the sum of $433.99.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently November 1925

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Battaile, for defendants in error · Decided 1844-01-15

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Mr. Justice Clayton

¶1delivered the following opinion.

¶2This cause involves the same question which is decided in the case of Pope v. Armstrong. The judgment will be reversed, and as the sum in this instance is ascertained, this Court directs judgment to be entered against the defendants in error, for the amount specified in the bill of exceptions, less the amount of fees therein specified to be due for services in this cause.

¶3Note. — This case (of Cage v. Wilkinson and Miles), and of Pope v. Armstrong, published on a preceding page, were both submitted to the Court at the same term, and the arguments of counsel in both cases were considered by the Court. The brief opinion delivered in this case would not perhaps justify its publication, were it not for the above consideration, and the great importance to the profession of the principle settled by the decisions.