Carey v. Leonard

The plaintiff brought this action to recover the reasonable value of his services as an attorney at law. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff against the defendant Velate Henderson Leonard, and the defendant appeals.

The defendant assigns as error the failure of the complaint to state a cause of action against the defendant. Apparently the defendant’s theory is that since the party who obtained the benefit of plaintiff’s services was defendant’s son, as alleged in the complaint, this defendant could not be held liable for this debt.

The defendant in her brief states, “It is obvious…