REBUKING THE BAR.
Mrs Livingston. of New York city, re covered 25,000d015, in the Courts about a year ago front a rich tnan who had done her a wrong Now she naturally complains because her lawyers have taken 23 Of Oiols cf this sum for their services. Three Milwaukee lawyers once pat In » bill of of 25,0001ol?. Judge Drummond tit once admi list red to these cormorants the following stern rebuke :—“ Gentlemen you consider yourselves good lawyers. How much more arc your services worth to your clients than mine to the people J sfou have 25,000 iols for sixty days se. vie ■> Could you n<'t be rc-tent, each of yot>, to take my pro rata for the same time ? These charges a e infamous They are such as men who are scoundrel and thieves at heart would make. This charge . f 12.000dol« is out down to 1200io!s ; those of 5000dols to 500dols, Repeat, such a price of rapine in this Court and I will disbar every one of you.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1409, 17 November 1886, Page 2
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169REBUKING THE BAR. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1409, 17 November 1886, Page 2
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