Tennessee Supreme Court April 15, 1872 (City of Memphis v. Adams, Dixon & Pike)

Nicholson, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Adams, Dixon & Pike, a firm of Attorneys at Law,., brought this suit, in the first Circuit Court of Shelby county, to recover of the City of Memphis jive thousand’ *519dollars ($5,000), for professional services, rendered in attending to the interests of the City in certain matters of litigation in Arkansas, touching the stock owned by the