Mr. W. Fireworks, Inc. v. Mitchell

RALEIGH BROWN, Justice.

David Mitchell seeks to recover from Mr. W. Fireworks, Inc., payment for personal services rendered and attorney’s fees under Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. 2226 (Vernon 1971). Fireworks sought as an off-set to such recovery the value of a lost portable electric generator. Judgment, based on a jury verdict, was entered awarding Mitchell the sum of $1,043.30 for services rendered plus $5,760 for attorney’s fees with the provision that such fees be credited with $600 in the event no application for writ of error to the Supreme Court is made and credited with $2,400 in the event no…