Viewing The Minimum Fee Schedule of the Fillmore County Bar Association (1860).

The Minimum Fee Schedule of the Fillmore County Bar Association (1860).

On November 13, 1860, the Fillmore County Bar Association was formed. Reuben Wells, who had moved to the county from New York three years earlier, was elected president. At this meeting, the bar association also adopted a minimum fee schedule.

This account of the formation of the bar association and its adoption of a minimum fee schedule appeared first in a county history published in 1882.

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