Norman v. Bennett

This was a special proceeding commenced by D. L. Norman, the plaintiff-appellant, under section 11608 of the 1927 Code, to recover from W. T. Bennett, the defendant-appellee, $600 in cash which the latter, as attorney, collected for the former, as a client, from the clerk of the Marshalltown municipal court.

Such $600 in cash previously had been placed with the clerk as a bond in a criminal case to secure the liberty of the appellant. Two criminal cases were pending at the time against the appellant. The one involved a charge of driving an automobile at a rate of speed prohibited by a…