bigscoop
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- Jun 4, 2010
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- Older blue Excal with full mods, Equinox 800.
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I just changed a little of the wording.
"The reasons which influenced him in selecting me for the blind trust, he gave, and were in substance as follows: First: Friendship for myself and family, whom he would benefit if he could. Second: The knowledge that I was young and in a profession for the task imposed; and finally, a confidence that I would regard his instructions as a client privilege, and carry out my legal duties according to his wishes. These, and perhaps others, he gave during our frequent conversations upon the subject, and doubtless believed he was conferring a legal favor which would redound greatly to my advantage. That it has proved otherwise is a misfortune to me, but no fault of his. The conditions alluded to above were that I should devote as much time as was practicable to the papers he had given me; master, if possible, their contents, and if successful in deciphering their meaning and eventually finding the trust, to appropriate one-half of his documented share as a fee for my services; the other half to be distributed to certain relatives and connexions of his own, whose names he gave me; the remainder to be held by me in legal trust for the benefit of such legal claimants as might at any time appear, and be able to authenticate their claims upon the trust. This latter amount, to be left intact, subject to such demands, for the space of twenty years, when, if still unclaimed, it should revert to myself or my heirs, as payment for my extended legal services."
"The reasons which influenced him in selecting me for the blind trust, he gave, and were in substance as follows: First: Friendship for myself and family, whom he would benefit if he could. Second: The knowledge that I was young and in a profession for the task imposed; and finally, a confidence that I would regard his instructions as a client privilege, and carry out my legal duties according to his wishes. These, and perhaps others, he gave during our frequent conversations upon the subject, and doubtless believed he was conferring a legal favor which would redound greatly to my advantage. That it has proved otherwise is a misfortune to me, but no fault of his. The conditions alluded to above were that I should devote as much time as was practicable to the papers he had given me; master, if possible, their contents, and if successful in deciphering their meaning and eventually finding the trust, to appropriate one-half of his documented share as a fee for my services; the other half to be distributed to certain relatives and connexions of his own, whose names he gave me; the remainder to be held by me in legal trust for the benefit of such legal claimants as might at any time appear, and be able to authenticate their claims upon the trust. This latter amount, to be left intact, subject to such demands, for the space of twenty years, when, if still unclaimed, it should revert to myself or my heirs, as payment for my extended legal services."
