Wells v. Cochran

The defendant Cochran, an attorney at law, negotiated a real estate trade for John P. Johnson, and subsequently recovered judgment against him in justice court upon his note given for services rendered. Johnson appealed to the district court. In both courts the defendant as a defense and counterclaim pleaded that Cochran was indebted to him in the sum of |500 for money had and *368received for Johnson’s nse. While this suit was pending Johnson died, and Mr. Wells, an attorney at law, the plaintiff herein, as executor of the last will and testament of the deceased, was substituted as the…