Stockman v. Whitmore
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Iowa District Gourt. — IIon. O. A. Byington, Judge. This is an action for attorney's fees for services rendered to the wife of defendant, in a divorce suit brought in her behalf against the defendant. Defendant demurred to the petition. The lower court sustained the demurrer, and entered judgment dismissing plaintiffs’ petition, and for costs. Plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
— According to the averments of the petition, the plaintiffs were employed by Lucy Whitmore, the wife of the defendant, to bring an action of divorce in her behalf against the defendant. The ground of the divorce charged was cruel and inhuman treatment. After a trial of the divorce case upon its merits the district court dismissed the petition. Erom this judgment the plaintiff in that action took an appeal to the Supreme Court. After-wards, and before the submission of the case in this court, the plaintiff and appellant therein dismissed her appeal. The plaintiffs herein served as her…
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