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The Daily Dispatch: May 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs in New York. (search)
Affairs in New York. The following letter from New York, which we copy from a late Washington paper, will be perused with interest — particularly that portion which relates to Dr. Charles Mackay: New York, April 24, 1862 With many other people having a talent for dawdling, I followed the current this morning to the Supreme Court, (Judge Barnard presiding,) where the celebrated Mr. Edwin James and several of our prominent lawyers were pitted against each other in the big Hackley (street-cleaning) contract case. It seems that a person named Lewis Davis, in some way supposed to be interested with Benjamin and Fernando Wood, claims, as assignee of the forms, one-fourth part of the profits of the contract; (estimated to be worth $60,000 per annum,) which, not having been paid over by the parties owning the other three-fourths, is now sought to be recovered by process at law, to the great detestation of the profession and disgust of those who must perforce remunerate the