Bachman v. Lawson

Citations

• 109 U.S. 659
• 3 S. Ct. 479
• 27 L. Ed. 1067
• 1884 U.S. LEXIS 1743

Syllabus

<p>Alabama Claims — Assignment—Attorney amd Counsel — Statutes.</p> <p>An agreement made a fortnight before the Treaty of Washington of 1871, and by which tha owners of a ship and cargo ..taken by the armed rebel cruiser, the Florida, employed a person, whether an attorney at law or not, to use his best efforts to collect their “ claim arising out of the capture,” and authorized him to employ such attorneys as he might think fit to prosecute it^and promised to pay him “a compensation .equal to twenty-five percent. of whatever sum shall be collected on the said claim,” applies to a sum awarded to them by the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, established by the act of June 23d, 1874, e. 459; and is not affected by § 18 of that act, providing that that court should allow, out of the amount awarded on any claim, reasonable compensation to the counsellor and attorney for the claimant, and issue a warrant therefor, and that all other liens, or assignments, either absolute or conditional, for past or future services about any claim, made or to be made before judgment in that court, should be void.</p>