Salt Lake Herald | 1890-01-19 | Page 7 | An Encouraging Prospect

An Encouraging Prospect Many of the good old fashioned legal anecdotes anec-dotes that have been hard service in their day and have been honorably retired long since are great favorites of mine While they possess pos-sess the rich flavor of ago for me I have found as a general thing that they were new to my audiences particularly to the more youfSiful element One of the best of these old time stories relates re-lates to a lawyer in whose hands was placed a claim for collection He agreed to undertake under-take the work on a contingent fee viz a retention re-tention of half the amount he would succeed in collecting He promised to act vigorously vigorous-ly but weeks passed and the client heard finallys TQt tojnxmire what I Iac h eoa in toe waittpr iivths return mail ho received this reply I have already got my half of the claim If you will wait n few months I may bo able to secure your halfNew York Herald