Elliott v. McClelland

Citations

• 17 Ala. 206

Syllabus

<p>1. Where it is not made to appear by the certificate either of the cierk.or judge in a sister State, that the county in which the proceedings were had is included in the judicial circuit within which the judge presides, the authentication is insufficient to admit the record in evidence.</p> <p>2. A contract by which an attorney is to collect money for his client, and for his services “ to retain on the sums collected twenty per cent, or be paid two hundred dollars as he shall elect,” is void for champerty.</p>