Donaldson v. Eaton & Estes
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Freemont District Court.— HoN. O. D. Wheele-e, Judge. This proceeding to require defendants to refund to plaintiff $2,000 for extortionate fees exacted from bim by defendants in excess of a reasonable compensation in their capacity as his attorneys was instituted in the lower court by motion, as authorized by Code, section 3826. After hearing the evidence the lower court dismissed plaintiff’s action, and he appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
McClaiN, I.
The evidence, without substantial conflict save as to one point to be hereafter noticed, shows that in November, 1904, the plaintiff, who was seventy years of age, a farmer and a resident of Ereemont county, consulted defendants, as attorneys practicing in that county, with reference to difficulties and disagreements with his wife., to whom he had been married about eight months, and expressed to them the desire for ¿ divorce from his wife in order that she might not have her statutory share of his property should she survive him. The defendants were not able to discover in…
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