Ratcliff v. Sherman

SUMMERS, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for attorney’s fees. Trial was to a jury, and the court, after the presentation of the appellant’s case, granted an instructed verdict in favor of the appellees. From this adverse judgment, appellant has appealed.

We affirm.

Elijah W. Ratcliff, appellant herein, alleges that he had rendered legal services to appellees Alfred Jones and D. M. White as their attorney in a suit tried in the Third Judicial District Court of Anderson County, Texas, for the recovery of two tracts of land; that, although in that case such land was adjudicated to be vested in…