Ball v. Thornton

Loring, Justice.

In a suit to recover the reasonable value of attorney’s fees rendered over a period of about 14 years the trial court found that there had been an accord and satisfaction by the acceptance by the plaintiff of a check for $2,000, and the case comes here upon the plaintiff’s appeal from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

It appears from the record that the plaintiff had been consulted many times by the defendant with regard to an expected inheritance of an interest in very valuable mining property owned by the defendant’s aunt and uncle. It would be useless to go into…