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• Title: Santosuosso v. Russo
• Author : Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
• Release Date : January 24, 1938
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 59 KB

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LUMMUS, Justice. The plaintiff, an attorney, was found to be entitled to $1,250 from the defendant in this action for professional services. The services were performed in obtaining an award from the Commonwealth of $17,500 for the taking of part of a building and two thousand four hundred forty square feet of land. The defendant was satisfied with the amount and signed and delivered a deed to the Commonwealth which was recorded. 1. The case comes here on appeal from the dismissal by the Appellate Division of a report. It was proposed at first that the only compensation to the plaintiff should be seventy per cent of the money obtained in excess of $15,000. That, it is contended, was champertous. Holdsworth v. Healey, 249 Mass. 436, 144 N.E. 386; Sherwin-Williams Co. v. J. Mannos & Sons, Inc., 287 Mass. 304, 191 N.E. 438. But the defendant refused to sign the written agreement in which that proposal was stated and decided not to employ the plaintiff. There was evidence that about six weeks later the defendant employed the plaintiff, and nothing was then said about compensation. The Judge could find that there was no special agreement limiting the plaintiff's compensation, and could disbelieve evidence to the contrary. The Commonwealth has not paid all that it owes under the award, but it could have been found that the plaintiff was employed only to obtain the award. The finding for the plaintiff, affirmed by the Appellate Division, was without error. The requests for rulings require no further Discussion.

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