Wolcott v. Patterson

Plaintiff is an attorney at law, and recovered in the coprt below for professional services rendered to the defendant, who is a married woman. A portion of the services related to the separate estate of the defendant, who is shown in the record to have had considerable property in her own right. Included in the bill of particulars was a charge of $100 for retainer and services in a divorce suit brought by defendant against her husband. This proceeding was not carried through to a determination, but was discontinued by Mrs. Patterson before a decree.

Substantially the only question presented by…