Counsel for the Defense

Typhus specialist Dr. David West has fought long and hard for the construction of the new municipal waterworks. Harrison Blake, the town's leading lawyer and banker, conspires to have the waterworks put into private hands and frames David for accepting a bribe. As none of the town's lawyers will take the case, Katherine, David's daughter and a recent law school graduate, accepts her first client in her father. However, the circumstantial evidence is too great and David is convicted. Harrison bribes a worker to sabotage the waterworks, causing a public clamor for their takeover by private interests. Katherine, with the aid of newspaper editor Arnold Bruce, uncovers the conspiracy after the outbreak of a typhus epidemic. David is freed, and Katherine weds Arnold.

Country:

United States of America

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

70 minutes

Year:

1925

Director:

Burton L. King

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Company:

Burton King Productions

Cast:

Doc West

Katherine West

Arnold Bruce

Harrison Blake

Harvey Sherman

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