Guinn v. Coates

HICKMAN, Chief Justice.

This ease originated in the justice’s court, but comes to us on appeal from the county court, where same was tried de novo. The pleadings were oral, but, from the evidence offered and the issues submitted to the jury, we infer that appellant declared upon a contract whereby appellee agreed to pay him $115 for extracting 15 teeth and for the material furnished and services rendered in making a set of artificial teeth, and, in the alternative, upon a quantum meruit; $15 was sought as attorney’s fees. In the county court the case was submitted to the jury upon the…