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Typhus specialist Dr. David West has fought long and hard for the construction of the new municipal waterworks.
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In 'Counsel for the Defense', a gripping courtroom drama, Dr. David West, a typhus specialist, is framed for accepting a bribe, leading to his wrongful conviction. His daughter, Katherine, a budding lawyer, takes on her first case to clear her father's name, uncovering a larger conspiracy in the process.
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.
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