Titlebaum v. Tobin

Action of contract in which the plaintiff seeks to recover on a quantum meruit for legal services rendered the defendant. The answer is a general denial and payment.

The undisputed facts are that the plaintiff, an attorney at law, went to the defendant’s residence at the request of a relative of the defendant, finding the defendant confined to his bed. The relative introduced the plaintiff to the defendant as an attorney who could handle the defendant’s claim for a pension from the City of Boston by which he was employed.

*70There was testimony that the defendant told the plaintiff that if he got…