sought to accomplish many things that were not successful, but corporation was wound up and its assets distributed, $25,000 coming within jurisdiction of court); McMillan v. Northport Smelting & Ref. Co. (1908) 49 Wash. 76, 94 Pac. 761 (attorneys secured, without opposition, restraining order preventing removal of certain machinery, saving $250,000; fee reduced from $3,500 to $1,000); Jones v. Jones (1913) 72 Wash. 517, 130 Pac. 1125 (attorney rendered extensive services in divorce action, involving large amount of property);

$800 to $900 per year-Re Brown, (1914) 87 Misc. 541, 151 N. Y. Supp. 390 (attorney cared for and reinvested funds of $150,000 estate during several years);

$878-Joyce v. Miami County Nat. Bank (1913) 90 Kan. 745, 136 Pac. 232 (attorney made investigations and reduced to judgment notes that had long been charged to profit and loss; $1,650 was realized by bank eleven years after judgment; fee allowed was 50 per cent of amount collected, with interest);

$840-People ex rel. Nash v. Onondaga County (1914) 164 App. Div. 89, 149 N. Y. Supp. 572 (attorney devoted forty-two days to preparation and trial of case for removal of sheriff; to some extent services could have been rendered by competent clerk);

$800-Eakin v. Peeples Hotel Co. (1899) Tenn., 54 S. W. 87 (attorney was one of those employed by hotel in suit against insurance company, in which $38,500 damages were claimed and $16,000 recovered by hotel; attorney was consulted before trial and was present during trial and appeal);

$775-Montana Coal & I. Co. v. Hoskins (1918) 88 Or. 523, 172 Pac. 118 (attorneys unsuccessfully defended suit by attorney against corporation to recover $1,000 attorneys' fees, with interest, and to enforce lien therefor);

$700 Auld's Succession (1893) 45 La. Ann. 248, 11 So. 948 (attorney represented absent heirs in litigation connected with succession); Roth's Succession (1881) 33 La. Ann. 540 (attor

ney succeeded in establishing will, case going through appeal on novel and important questions); Gillette v. Murphy (1897) 7 Okla. 91, 54 Pac. 413 (attorney defended ex-sheriff in suit by county involving over $3,000, and succeeded in recovering affirmative judgment against county);

$600-Garrigus v. Gilbert (1883) 4 Ky. L. Rep. 1001 (attorney directed two suits for recovery of land in another state, making several trips; recovery, $2,700 on compromise);

$530-Halaska v. Cotzhausen (1881) 52 Wis. 624, 9 N. W. 401 (attorney represented interests of landowners in condemnation proceedings, and on appeal succeeded in having amount of damages raised from $630 to $1,700);

$500-Stewart v. Beggs (1908) 56 Fla. 565, 47 So. 932 (in proceeding for malicious prosecution attorney secured judgment of $8,000 for his client); Desky v. Orpheum Co. (1901) 13 Haw. 634 (attorney's services consisted in foreclosure of mortgage to recover claim exceeding $30,000); Warren Deposit Bank v. Barclay (1901) 22 Ky. L. Rep. 1555, 60 S. W. 853 (attorney rendered services in unsuccessful attempt to have client appointed administrator of client's son, who had been killed in railroad accident; through administrator that was appointed, client received $7,500 for his son's death); Sterry's Succession (1886) 38 La. Ann. 854 (attorney who had represented a certain estate was directed by executor to file answer in later suit connected therewith, and to notify heirs to defend; attorney held consultations, but was not charged with responsibility of attending to suit; heirs effected compromise at $15,000); Copley v. Harrison (1842) 3 Rob. (La.) 83 (attorney was employed in case that was pending several years and was twice before appellate court; parties finally compromised without consulting attorney); Heinsheimer v. Schulte (1914) 164 App. Div. 265, 149 N. Y. Supp. 631, modified another point and affirmed in (1915) 214 N. Y. 361, 108 N. E. 636, Ann. Cas. 1916E, 384 (attorney recovered judgment for $4,176 in easy trial, lasting less than one day; fee reduced

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from $1,000 to $500); Vinson v. Cantrell (1900) Tenn., 56 S. W. 1034 (attorneys brought suit for $10,000 for breach of marriage contract; after hot fight in trial and appellate court, $4,000 was recovered); Belmont v. McAllister (1914) 116 Va. 285, 81 S. E. 81 (attorney, in caring for 250 acres of land, secured contract for water supply, prepared charters for water company and park association, and rendered other services; but in most of work he was acting without authority from client; fee reduced from $4,000 to $500);

$475 Wilson v. Minneapolis & N. W. R. Co. (1884) 31 Minn. 481, 18 N. W. 291 (attorneys defended client in action involving $20,000);

$450-Fryer v. Dicken (1898) 20 Ky. L. Rep. 696, 47 S. W. 341 (attorney defended mortgagee in suit by creditors seeking to set aside mortgage for $3,300, result of suit being that mortgage was held to operate as assignment, but mortgagee's claim was adjudged to be preferred one; other services were rendered, consisting of preparation of deed and lien notes and in collecting some money; court held that fee of $1,000 was excessive, and that sum of $450, which attorney had received, was ample compensation);

$400-Patterson v. Fleenor (1905) 28 Ky. L. Rep. 582, 89 S. W. 705 (attorney assisted in recovery of 2,200 acres of land, worth from $30,000 to $50,000); Re Leech (1893) 45 La. Ann. 194, 12 So. 126 (attorney prosecuted suit and obtained judgment of interdiction);

$350-Brennan's Estate (1906) 215 Pa. 272, 64 Atl. 537 (general services to estate, involving investments and auditing accounts); Whitham v. Hilton (1914) 78 Wash. 446, 139 Pac. 209, Ann. Cas. 1916B, 260 (after failure of attorney in fact to secure more than $4,500 in condemnation proceedings for 3 acres of land, attorney at law succeeded in obtaining $7,250 for approximately 2 acres);

$343-Reid v. Warren Improv. Co. (1911) 17 Cal. App. 746, 121 Pac. 694 (attorney's services amounted to $347.50, according to his own bills);

$325-Hollingworth V. Shannon

(1918) 167 Wis. 224, 167 N. W. 248 (attorneys collected $6,512.50 in suit to foreclose land contract);

$259-Beard v. Morgan (1897) 71 Ill. App. 564 (attorneys assisted in successful defense of newspaper editor in two suits for libel and one for false imprisonment);

$250-Valley Oil Co. v. Ready (1917) 131 Ark. 531, 199 S. W. 915 (attorneys procured appointment of receiver in amicable proceeding; fee reduced from $2,500 to $250); Meadows v. Shelbourne (1910) Ky. - 127 S. W. 477 (action for divorce, wherein attorney secured settlement of $75 per month alimony); Scharps v. Hess (1909) 120 N. Y. Supp. 56 (attorney spent seven hours in consultation with client relative to mortgage on client's property and in examination of subject; advised line of defense, which was adopted by client's next attorney; offered to appear up to trial for retainer of $500, and offered, further, to try case for $500, if unsuccessful, or larger amount if successful; fee reduced from $500 to $250); Callender v. Turpin (1901) Tenn. ——, 61 S. W. 1057 (attorney procured affidavits that enabled man convicted of murder to get new trial);

$225 Warren v. Sheehan (1909) 156 Mich. 432, 120 N. W. 810 (attorney attended court four days, watching progress of important litigation, in which his client was greatly interested, and examined decree);

$200-Billington v. Poitevent & F. Lumber Co. (1900) 52 La. Ann. 1397, 27 So. 725 (attorneys succeeded in dissolving attachment issued against mill, case going through appellate court); Uzee v. Biron (1851) 6 La. Ann. 565 (attorney settled estate of about $10,000; debts amounted to not over $1,000; there was no intricacy or litigation); Koenig v. Harned (1888) N. J. Eq. 13 Atl. 236 (attorney obtained for client divorce and $8 per week alimony; this fee was in addition to one of $50 allowed in divorce suit); Taylor v. Badoux (1899) Tenn. 58 S. W. 919 (attorneys conducted protracted litigation in collecting foreign judgment, involving about $500);

$200 per year-Farmers' Loan & T.

Co. v. Mann (1867) 4 Robt. (N. Y.) 356 (general supervision for eleven years of the sale of a large number of parcels of land);

$175-Western Iron Co. v. Brittain (1917) 206 III. App. 14 (attorney procured judgment for client, and rendered other services looking to payment of judgment); $150-Herman

V. Metropolitan

Street R. Co. (1903) 121 Fed. 184 (judgment for $500, obtained through attorney's efforts); Hays v. Johnson (1907) 30 Ky. L. Rep. 614, 99 S. W. 332 (attorney assisted in settling estate); Lartigue v. White (1873) 25 La. Ann. 325 (attorney obtained, without opposition, order discharging executor and order requiring erasure of certain mortgages against estate; fee reduced from $1,500 to $150); Kult v. Nelson (1898) 25 Misc. 238, 55 N. Y. Supp. 56, modifying (1898) 24 Misc. 20, 53 N. Y. Supp. 95 (attorney for infant was substituted before trial for another counsel, who received $100 for prior services; attorney had burden of preparing case for trial and of trying it); Thomasson v. Latourette (1901) 63 App. Div. 408, 71 N. Y. Supp. 559 (attorney recovered judgment for $674; was aided by other counsel to whom client paid $200; fee reduced from $250 to $150); Goldstein 7. Coronum Equipment Co. (1918) 169 N. Y. Supp. 42 (attorney defended action brought to recover $1,406, which, after trial lasting less than one day, was dismissed on merits at close of plaintiff's case; fee reduced from $350 to $150);

$130 Frost v. Reinach (1903) 40 Misc. 412, 81 N. Y. Supp. 246 (attorney prepared answer and made two motions, then client substituted another attorney; fee reduced from $225 to $130);

$120-Baker V. Tate (1914) 41 Okla. 353, 138 Pac. 171 (services by attorney resulted in client's recovery of $620);

$100-Lartigue v. White (La.) supra (attorney obtained certain orders in case of succession; orders were obtained without opposition and by consent; fee reduced from $1,000 to $100); Re Brown (1914) 87 Misc. 541,

151 N. Y. Supp. 390 (drawing will for estate worth over $150,000; same price allowed for each of several wills by same testator);

$75 Szymanski v. Szymanski (1912) 151 Wis. 145, 138 N. W. 53 (attorney served summons, complaint, and affidavit in divorce proceedings; parties became reconciled and notified attorney to stop proceedings; fee reduced from $150 to $75);

$60 Reisterer v. Carpenter (1890) 124 Ind. 30, 24 N. E. 371 (attorney brought suit and collected note; defendant tendered $510; attorney recovered $918);

$51-Gordon v. Miller (1859) 14 Md. 204 (allowance of of 5 per cent of collection to representative of attorney who reduced claims to judgment, and died before collection was made, other half of 5 per cent being awarded to one making collection);

$50-Greeff v. Miller (1898) 87 Fed. 33 (attorneys handled group of forty to fifty cases, all involving same question; $50 allowed in each case); Johnson v. Ravitch (1906) 113 App. Div. 810, 99 N. Y. Supp. 1059 (attorney drew complaint and put cause on calendar, but failed to answer on call, and client put case in hands of another); Aultman & T. Co. v. Gibert (1888) 28 S. C. 303, 5 S. E. 806 (attorney prosecuted suits for collection of $1,250 note secured by mortgage); Proulx v. Stetson & P. Mill Co. (1893) 6 Wash. 478, 33 Pac. 1067 (attorney was employed in enforcing loggers' liens); Hitchcock v. Merritt (1862) 15 Wis. 522 (foreclosure of mortgage for $11,359). See also Lindquist v. Young (1912) 119 Minn. 219, 138 N. W. 28.

$35-Re Deck (1913) 158 Iowa, 242, 139 N. W. 550 (attorney resisted objections to report of guardian, being engaged at least one day on trial); Re Peterson, 74 Hun, 93, 26 N. Y. Supp. 405 (attorney collected $160 by suit in justice's court and proceedings supplementary to execution);

$25-Farley v. Geisheker (1889) 78 Iowa, 453, 6 L.R.A. 533, 43 N. W. 279 (attorney brought action for abatement of nuisance caused by selling liquor; judgment was easily recovered);

$22.50-Burns v. Allen (1885) 15 R. I. 32, 35, 2 Am. St. Rep. 844, 23 Atl. 35 (attorney issued writ of attachment, secured judgment for $75, and collected that amount after considerable trouble);

$15 per week-Re Brown (1914) 87 Misc. 541, 151 N. Y. Supp. 390 (consultations during several years concerning estate of $150,000).

III. Unreasonable fees.

The following amounts have been held to be unreasonable as fees for legal services:

$388,156 Starin V. New York (1887) 106 N. Y. 82, 12 N. E. 643 (attorney for excise commissioners commenced over 14,000 actions for violations of law by selling liquor without license; in over 8,000 of such actions defendants appeared and put in answers of general denial; in over 1,000 cases judgments were taken by default; county paid expenses of printing, clerk's and sheriff's fees, etc.; attorney collected and appropriated to his own use $10,000 of costs and penalties; court held that, in view of character of services required, which were largely clerical, amount allowed was grossly excessive);

$200,000-Brown v. Pennsylvania R. Co. (1918) 162 C. C. A. 529, 250 Fed. 513 (attorney recovered from railroad company for benefit of bondholders of another corporation the sum of $1,900,000; allowance of $200,000 from fund recovered reduced to $100,000);

$85,000-McMannomy

v. Chicago,

D. & V. R. Co. (1897) 167 III. 497, 47 N. E. 712 (attorney defended railroad in protracted foreclosure litigation, involving large amount and requiring much time and labor, but attorney did not devote whole of his time to case; fee reduced to $50,000);

$47,600-Re Kings County Trust Co. (1916) 219 N. Y. 590, 114 N. E. 1070, affirming (1915) 169 App. Div. 966, 153 N. Y. Supp. 1122, which modified (1914) 86 Misc. 176, 149 N. Y. Supp. 124 (attorneys for executor recovered $346,900 from trustees under will, services being rendered with understanding that compensation was to be contingent on success; fee reduced to $30,000);

(1915) 138 La. 543, 70 So. 505 (services rendered in administration of estate amounting to $264,000, and defending will against attack of heirs; fee reduced to $13,735.60);

$5,837 Re Kellogg (1904) 96 App. Div. 608, 88 N. Y. Supp. 1033, affirmed in (1905) 180 N. Y. 534, 72 N. E. 1114 (attorney made several arguments of case on appeal and one reargument, but those arguments were mere restatements of same propositions; court did not consider them as services rendered in separate cases; allowance reduced to $5,037);

$4,000-Sain v. Bogle (1916) 122 Ark. 14, 182 S. W. 515 (attorneys successfully defended suit attacking legality of formation of drainage district; statute was passed immediately thereafter dissolving district; fee reduced to $1,000); Belmont v. McAllister (1914) 116 Va. 285, 81 S. E. 81 (attorney, in caring for 250 acres of land, secured contract for water supply, prepared charters for water company and park association, and rendered other services; but in most of work he was acting without authority from client; fee reduced to $500);

$3,600-Hempstead v. New York (1903) 86 App. Div. 300, 83 N. Y. Supp. 806 (attorney prosecuted four actions for damages, under statute relative to navigability of certain creeks; matter was settled by subsequent legislation according to which $10,000 per year for five years was paid to client; it appeared that attorney's services were factor, though not sole factor, in effecting settlement; fee, which had first been allowed on assumption that services were only inducing cause of beneficial legislation, was reduced to $2,600);

$3,500-McMillan v. Northport Smelting & Ref. Co. (1908) 49 Wash. 76, 94 Pac. 761 (attorneys secured, without opposition, restraining order preventing removal of certain machinery, saving $250,000; fee reduced to $1,000);

$2,500-Re Rude (1900) 101 Fed. 805 (attorney for preferred creditor of bankrupt successfully prosecuted claim for $7,300; worked thirty-five

days, receiving compensation also from another source; fee reduced to $1,500, exclusive of retainer of $250); Valley Oil Co. v. Ready (1917) 131 Ark. 531, 199 S. W. 915 (attorneys procured appointment of receiver in amicable proceeding; fee reduced to $250);

$1,500-Lartigue v. White (1873) 25 La. Ann. 325 (attorney obtained, without opposition, order discharging executor and order requiring erasure of certain mortgages against estate; fee reduced to $150); $1,000-Reynolds V. McMillan (1872) 63 Ill. 46 (simple partition proceedings); Fryer v. Dicken (1898) 20 Ky. L. Rep. 696, 47 S. W. 341 (attorney defended mortgagee in suit by creditors seeking to set aside mortgage for $3,300, result of suit being that mortgage was held to operate as assignment, but mortgagee's claim was adjudged to be preferred one; other services were rendered, consisting of preparation of deed and lien notes and in collecting some money; court held that sum of $450, which attorney had received, was ample compensation); Lartigue v. White (1873) 25 La. Ann. 291 (attorney obtained certain orders in case of succession; orders were obtained without opposition and by consent; fee reduced to $100); Heinsheimer v. Schulte (1914) 164 App. Div. 265, 149 N. Y. Supp. 631, modified on another point and affirmed in (1915) 214 N. Y. 361, 108 N. E. 636. Ann. Cas. 1916E, 384 (attorney recovered judgment for $4,176 in easy trial lasting less than one day; fee reduced to $500);

$975-Re Raby (1898) 25 Misc. 240, 55 N. Y. Supp. 87 (attorney obtained injunction to prevent wrongful conversion of license, unearned balance of which amounted to $600);

$500-Dorsey v. Corn (1878) 2 Ill. App. 533 (simple partition proceedings); Scharps v. Hess (1909) 120 N. Y. Supp. 56 (attorney spent seven hours in consultation with client relative to mortgage on client's property and in examination of subject; advised line of defense, which was adopted by client's next attorney; offered to appear up to trial for retainer of $500, and offered, further, to try

case for $500, if unsuccessful, or larger amount if successful; amount of fee reduced to $250); Re Ludeke (1898) 22 Misc. 676, 50 N. Y. Supp. 952 (attorney defended estate from claim for $950 for alimony by wife of, assignor; attorney was working partly in his own interest);

$375 Baldwin v. Mills (1911) 66 Wash. 302, 119 Pac. 816 (attorney made up issues in simple ejectment suit);

$350-Goldstein v. Coronum Equipment Co. (1918) 169 N. Y. Supp. 42 (attorney defended action brought to recover $1,406, which, after trial lasting less than one day, was dismissed on merits at close of plaintiff's case; fee reduced to $150);

$300-Parsons v. Hawley (1894) 92 Iowa, 175, 60 N. W. 520 (judgment recovered for $778 was excessive, and parties subsequently compromised; court held that attorneys' fees should be based on amount of recovery, without regard to judgment);

$250-Thomasson V. Latourette (1901) 63 App. Div. 408, 71 N. Y. Supp. 559 (attorney recovered judgment for $674; was aided by other counsel to whom client paid $200; fee reduced to $150);

$225 Frost v. Reinach (1903) 40 Misc. 412, 81 N. Y. Supp. 246 (attorney prepared answer and made two motions, then client substituted another attorney; fee reduced to $130);

$200 per year-Baldwin v. Mills (1911) 66 Wash. 302, 119 Pac. 816 ("general services so mythical and indefinite that they cannot be itemized");

$150 Szymanski V. Szymanski (1912) 151 Wis. 145, 138 N. W. 53 (attorney served summons, complaint, and affidavit in divorce proceedings; parties became reconciled and notified attorney to stop proceedings; defendant offered to pay attorney $75; in holding this amount to be ample compensation, court said: "There seems to be apparent in this case as well as in some others which have come before us, a notion that any young gentleman two or three years out of law school has a right to charge at the rate of $50 per day for his services