F. L. Stitt Co., a Corp. v. Powell

Campbell, Circuit Judge.

The defendant in error, as plaintiff in the court below, sued the plaintiff in error, as defendant, for certain amounts which it was alleged were due the plaintiff by the defendant.

For convenience, we shall in this opinion refer to the defendant in error as plaintiff, and to the plaintiff in error as defendant. '

The suit was brought by the plaintiff for sums claimed to be due him as attorney’s fees, amounting to $36,506.00, for services rendered by him in his capacity as an attorney-at-law for the defendant, at his request. The declaration contains a count for the…