Cook v. Walton

Suit by Walton against Cook. Judgment for plaintiff

The following is the case made: Mrs. Cook, the appellant, brought an action against her then husband for a divorce, in the court of common pleas of Tippecanoe county, where the cause was tried, but the divorce was refused. Walton, the appellee, was her counsel in the cause, and rendered service therein.

He brought the present action against Mrs. Cook, to recover the value of his services in the divorce suit, which were shown to have been reasonably worth one hundred dollars, which sum he recovered.

It seems, from some matters contained in the…