Lagarde v. Connell

SCHOTT, Judge.

Defendant appeals from a judgment awarded to plaintiff, an attorney at law, for $753.25 representing the balance claimed by the plaintiff on account of professional services rendered.

*240The record consists entirely of plaintiff’s testimony at the conclusion of which defendant’s attorney submitted the matter stating that the defendant, Dr. Connell, was not present at the trial because he could not add to or subtract from anything plaintiff said.

In the summer of 1971 plaintiff was employed by defendant’s wife, Mrs. Connell, to file a suit for separation from bed and board against her…