Laybourn v. Bray Shifflet
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Wheeler County ; W. R. Ewing, Judge. Suit by Bray & Shifflet against W. A. Lay-bourn. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtHuff, C. J.
This is the second appeal to this court. The former appeal will be found in 190 S. W. 1159. The appellees, Bray & Shifflet, sued appellant, Laybourn, upon a contract of employment as attorneys to represent and prosecute certain litigation between appellant and the Spaulding Manufacturing Company in the state of Iowa, which contract is in writing and dated September 30, 1912, executed and signed after the case had been tried in the lower court, but afterwards appealed, reversed, and sent back for new trial. The contract stipulated, among other things, that appellees had charged appellant…
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