Choate's Fee Of $200,000

A group of members of the legal professlon were talking about the incometax decisión, when some allusion was made to the size of the fees that were paid to counsel employed to fight the tax. "I have it on the best authority," said an eminent lawyetfrom New York "that Joseph Choate's retainer in thé case was $100,000, with the understanding that if the decisión of the court was favorable to the opponents of the tax he was to get $}00,000 additional."-