Cole v. Coskery
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Polk Circuit Court. Action upon an account for legal services alleged to have been rendered for the defendant’s intestate, Samuel Coskery, deceased. The amount claimed is $225. The court allowed $20, with some interest thereon. The plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
1. Practice in Supreme Court: finding of trial court: evidence to support. There is very little if any doubt, we think, in regard to the rendition of the services. Some of them, it is true, appear to have been rendered for the firm of Coskery & Eorbes, of which the intestate was a member, but that firm was dissolved, and the ' intestate took the accounts and assumed its liabilities. During the time that the services were rendered, the plaintiff became indebted to Coskery & Forbes for insurance. That firm, too, as we understand the evidence, at one time held the promissory note of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Burkhart v. BallSupreme Court of Iowa · 1882