Wick v. Beck
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Superior Court of Cedar Rapids. — Hon. C. B. Robbins, Judge. Action by an attorney to recover for legal services rendered the defendant’s wife in an action for a divorce brought by tbe husband against the wife, in which the husband established the grounds alleged for a divorce to be true. From a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for the value of such services, defendant appeals.
1ConcurrenceEvans, J.
— I concur in the majority opinion. I do so with the saving suggestion that it does not purport to curtail the power of the divorce court to protect the wife’s right of defending a divorce action at the expense of her husband, regardless of the final merits of such defense. I would not curtail such power of the court, nor encroach upon such right of the wife. “Where, however, a husband has prosecuted his divorce action to a final adjudication and a decree has been entered therein in his favor, the attorney for the former wife cannot thereafter maintain am independent action at laiu against…
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