Hasty v. Bays

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This appeal was by B. R. Bays, one of three defendants, in an action to recover an attorney fee from all three defendants for professional services alleged to have been rendered all of them, associated together as partners in a joint adventure having for its general and major purpose the acquisition of sufficient stock of the Harburney Oil Company to enable them as stockholders therein to control the reorganization thereof under the bankruptcy law, the company having gone into voluntary bankruptcy, and to control the affairs of the…