Kennedy v. Chadwell

Arthur W. Kennedy and Bertram S. Harris, attorneys, sue A. Ben Chadwell in the district court of Oklahoma county to recover upon two judgments of the superior court of Los Angeles county, California, ordering the defendant to pay directly to the plaintiffs two sums as attorneys’ fees pendente lite. One judgment was entered March 15 and the other October 10, 1938, and they were not appealed from.

These attorneys’ fees were allowed for, services rendered in an action in which three minor children of the defendant, acting through their mother, Amboline Chadwell, as guardian ad lit-em, sought a…