Fisher v. Simmons

This is an action by Gerard N. Fisher (a lawyer practicing in Kitsap County) to recover attorney’s fees in the sum of $2,500 from J. Lael Simmons (a lawyer practicing in Kang County) for services rendered by the plaintiff for the defendant in certain litigation in Kitsap County.1 The gist of the complaint is in the second paragraph which reads:

That during the month of January, 1957, the defendant herein, J. Lael Simmons, retained the plaintiff herein, Gerard Fisher, to represent him in the case of J. Lael Simmons v. Russell L. Sweeney,[2] said case being filed in the Superior Court of the…