Tautenhahn v. Dillingham

TIREY, Justice.

Plaintiffs brought this action for the legal services they rendered in the defense of a suit seeking to remove defendants, Tauten-hahn, Whitmarsh and Ammons from their position as trustees of the Aldine Independent School District. (That case was appealed to the Houston Court of Civil Appeals and reached our Court on transfer. See Tautenhahn v. State of Texas, ex rel. Nichols, Tex.Civ.App., 334 S.W.2d 574, n. r. e.). This cause was tried to a jury and at the close of the evidence defendants, Moore, Allen and Stanley and the Aldine School District Taxpayers Association were…