Hill v. Bush

Atkinson, Presiding Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Ordinarily the services of an attorney must be paid for by the client who employs him. Code, § 20-1404; Murphey v. Brock, 206 Ga. 9 (2 c) (55 S. E. 2d, 564). Applying the above principle, the court did not err in sustaining the defendant’s demurrer, and striking allegations to the effect that the petitioner had been compelled, by virtue of the arbitrary attitude on the part of the defendant, to employ counsel to bring the action at an expense to her of $200, and that she was entitled to reasonable attorney’s fees. See, in this…