Bauguess v. Paine

Opinion

BIRD, C. J.

Appellant, plaintiff’s attorney in a personal injury suit, was ordered by the trial court to pay respondents $700 in attorney’s fees after a mistrial was declared in that action. This court must decide whether the trial court exceeded its authority in issuing that order.

I

Appellant, Maxim N. Bach, represented the plaintiff in the personal injury suit of Bauguess v. Paine. The trial proceeded uneventfully until the second day, when appellant proposed reading a deposition to the jury. Appellant requested that a diagram, attached to the deposition, be admitted into evidence.…