Coleman v. Sisson

■MR. CHIEF JUSTICE' CALLAWAY

delivered the opinion of the court.

Mrs. Sisson, the defendant in this action, desiring to obtain from her husband a divorce and alimony, as well as to gain the custody of a minor child of the marriage, to that end in the month of April, 1921, employed John A. Coleman, an attorney at law then practicing his profession at Lewistown, Montana. Coleman accepted the employment and about May 7, 1921, began the action. According to Coleman’s testimony Mrs. Sisson agreed to pay him whatever fee he saw fit to charge, regardless of what the court might allow. Pursuant to this…