Costello v. Barry

Gallagher, Chief Justice.

Appeal from an order of the municipal court of St. Paul denying defendant’s alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial.

The action involved a suit for services claimed to have been rendered by plaintiff in defendant’s behalf. Plaintiff was a law school graduate but had not been admitted to the bar at the time of the transactions involved herein. Defendant was then an attorney practicing his profession in South St. Paul but has since moved to Arizona.

It is the claim of plaintiff that about July, 1931, he accompanied one Elvin E. Goin, his…