Shelley v. Bixby

Plaintiff W. Frank Shelley, an attorney at law, appeals from a judgment in favor of the defendants. Under one cause of action he sought to recover fees allegedly due under a written contract whereby defendants employed him and two other attorneys to render legal services. Under another cause of action he sought to recover the reasonable value of legal services allegedly rendered.

On December 21, 1936, the defendants Elizabeth Irving Bixby and Lillian Odisho Bajón, as parties of the first part, and W. Frank Shelley, George D. Higgins and Franklin P. Bull, attorneys at law, as parties of the…