Green v. Sherritt

GRAY, J., pro tem.

The complaint, in two alternative counts, sought the recovery, upon an assignment, of $10,000 as compensation for legal services performed by Courtney L. Moore as attorney for defendant Maxwell A. Sherritt. The first count alleged that defendant, by a written contract, had employed Moore to defend him in a pending action until final judgment for a fee of $10,000; that Moore had fully performed his services and that a judgment of dismissal had been entered in that action on the same day on which the present complaint had been filed. The second count alleged that defendant had…