Arnold v. Brill

This is an action by the plaintiff, an attorney at law, for legal services rendered to the defendant’s wife, at her request, at a time when defendant and his wife were living separate and apart. Defendant is being sued on the ground that said services are necessaries.

Defendant’s wife retained the plaintiff to bring an action of separation against the defendant, her husband. The plaintiff had several conferences with the defendant’s wife, reduced to writing and gave consideration to various lengthy statements from her regarding her relations with her husband, and prepared a number of papers in…