Seltzer v. Chadwick

Plaintiff brought this action to recover a fee he alleges was earned by him while serving as attorney for- an administrator (defendant) of an estate which was probated in Kodiak, Alaska. Trial of the cause to the court without a jury resulted in findings that the services had been performed by a partnership consisting of an attorney named Warren A. Taylor and plaintiff, and that plaintiff, who had retired from the partnership and assigned his interest in the firm to his surviving partner prior to the commencement of the action, had no right to maintain the action in his individual capacity.…