Wilson v. Wallace

ARCHBALD, J., pro tem.

Plaintiff, a member of the firm of Wilson & Wagner, of Washington, D. C., income tax experts, and an assignee of said firm, filed his complaint for the reasonable value of services alleged to have been performed by the copartnership for defendant, under an alleged contract in writing, in defending the latter in certain proceedings initiated by the government to collect a tax and penalties aggregating $2,147,065.27. At the close of plaintiff’s case in chief the defendant moved for a nonsuit on the ground that the facts proved by plaintiff were not sufficient to justify a…