Grimminger v. Cummings

From a jury verdict and judgment in the sum of $2,684.09 in a suit for attorney’s fees and legal services, plaintiff appeals, asserting inadequacy of the verdict and judgment.

The evidence shows that the plaintiff was employed by the defendants in a legal capacity to assist them in a series of negotiations as to the lease or sale of a downtown business property in Grand Island, Nebraska, to the Boss Hotels Company. The negotiations lasted from February 1958 to March I9601 and resulted in a sale of the property for $125,000. The evidence is voluminous in this case, and we will review it in this…