Armitage v. Morris, Administrator

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

A direct appeal by Armitage is from a judgment that as attorney he retained as a fee $379.28 more than the charge should have been for services rendered Louis Lexton Morris in two transactions involving an estate. Armitage has also appealed from dismissal of his cross-complaint against Morris, Owen C. Pearce, and Culbert L. Pearce, alleging damages for defamation of character. Morris has cross-appealed from the. judgment allowing Armitage compensation in any sum, and from the Court’s refusal to hold that in remitting $1,896:81 to Cox & Company without his client’s…