Levy v. Winget

— The appellee, an attorney at law, sued the appellant in the Marion County Superior Court to recover the value of services rendered in the success ful prosecution of a claim the appellant asserted against his deceased wife’s estate. The appellant defended on the theory that such services were rendered according to the terms of an express oral contract of employment whereby the appellee agreed to accept the sum of $100 in full payment therefor which sum had been fully paid and satisfied. Trial to a jury was waived and the court found generally for the appellee in the sum of $2500 and entered…