Eastern Utah Advocate | 1902-07-10 | Page 5 | As to Doctors' and Lawyers' Fees

aa As to doctor doctors and lawyer lawyers fee fees in conversation tho the other day a prominent lawyer remarked to a clan cian of repute that the plant fatato i amounting to some forty millions would bring the lawyers about a million dollars as fees the doctor ask ed the lawyer mr F suppose mr air plant were dying but there being a chance of raving saving ble his life by a difficult operation a argeon bargeon or geon should operate and save mr plants life would that surgeon bo be justified in bending sending in a bill for the immediate answer waa was certainly bowl not well asked dr M how la in it th that at the lawyers can charge such large fees because replied the advocate a lawyers fees are fixed by the courts and the celebrated physician whose whoso office fee of ten dollars la Is often grudgingly paid remarked you lawyers have solved the lera lem of self preservation while we are spending our time in the preserve pre serva alon of others new york times