A SMART SOLICITOR.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 245, 23 March 1875, Page 3

A SMART SOLICITOR.

A good story is told concerning a solicitor formerly in practice at Wolverhampton. A person who made a claim of £2 15s against a debtor desired this solicitor to support the action when it was heard in the Stourbridge County Court. But it so happened that on the day when the case would come on for hearing there was a certain “meet,” at which the gentleman of the law desired to be present; and he endeavored to evade his client’s engagement by saying that it would not r do for him to spend the whole day at Stourbridge and put aside an “important engagement ” unless he had a heavy fee. But the client would pay anything rather than not be supported by his solicitor. What did he want ? £lO. Oh, yes; £lO was nothing to him, and he would rather pay double the money than be “swindled” out of the amount due to him. So it was arranged that the solicitor should have a fee of £lO for going to Stourbridge to support the claim for £2 15s. In the course of a few days the solicitor’s clerk [went to Stourbridge,_ paid into court the money in dispute, and his employer (who was thereby enabled to pocket £7 5s and have his day’s sport into the bargain) wrote to his client a letter, somewhat to that effect Dear sir,—Hearing you had engaged my services, the defendant has paid the £2 15s into court, and there will be no further proceedings in the case.”