Hammond v. A. J. Bayless Markets, Inc.

A. J. Bayless Markets, Inc., a corporation, called the company, brought suit against C. P. Hammond to recover attorney’s fees incurred by it in defending a certain action in a previous suit in which the position of the parties as plaintiff and defendant was reversed. Reference to this previous suit will be made from time to time as is necessary.

The facts leading up to the present action are not in dispute, and may be stated as follows: In 1937 both the company and Hammond were engaged in the grocery business in Phoenix. In the spring of that year the legislature had enacted chapter 44 of the…