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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2, chapter 30 (search)
evailed in the suit in March, 1846. Sumner was paid five hundred dollars for his services,—a professional fee which it was rarely his good fortune to receive in a single case. To Mr. Choate's kindly interest he was doubtless indebted for the opportunity to earn it. His connection with the case is referred to in Mr. Choate's Works and Memoir, Vol. I. pp. 74, 75. See Boston Advertiser, Feb. 22, 1844. The Council Records of Massachusetts, March 31, 1846, with the report of a committee, March 19, give a detailed statement of the services of the several counsel. In the winter of 1844-45, he was counsel before a legislative committee in a case of considerable interest,—the petition of the people of Chelsea, then a town of three thousand inhabitants, for a railroad designed to connect that and neighboring communities with Boston by a land route; the connection being then by a railroad with a terminus at East Boston, and thence by ferry to the city proper. His argument for the pet