Yount v. Zarbell

This action was brought by a marital community against a marital community to recover attorney’s fees alleged to be due to plaintiff wife under an oral contract of employment with defendant husband. Defendants denied indebtedness to plaintiffs, and, by way of cross-complaint, pleaded certain offsets. The cause was tried to the court, which found in favor of plaintiffs on their complaint and in favor of defendants as to one of the three offsets pleaded in their cross-complaint. From judgment entered in harmony with the findings, defendants appealed.

In addition to the contention that the…