Ney v. Eastern Iowa Telephone Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Johnson District Court. — Hon. R, P. Howell, Judge. Action to recover attorney’s fees for services rendered defendant as a corporation, at the question and instance of its president, without any showing on the part of the plaintiff of authority from the corporation to employ him, or any fact from which such authority might be inferred.
1Opinion of the CourtGaynor, J.
The plaintiff is an attorney at law. Defendant is a corporation organized under the laws of this state, and this action is brought to recover the reasonable value of services claimed to have been rendered by the plaintiff, to the defendant, under an oral contract of employment made by the plaintiff with the president of the defendant company. The action is in two counts. In the first count the plaintiff claims that he was orally employed by one J. H. Rohret, president of the defendant company, to take charge of a certain ease and defend the corporation company in a suit brought by one O. W.…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- National State Bank v. Vigo County National BankIndiana Supreme Court · 1895
- Hartman v. Chicago Great Western Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1906
- St. Clair v. RutledgeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1902
- White v. Elgin Creamery Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1899
- Sherman Center Town Co. v. SwigartSupreme Court of Kansas · 1890
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