Crouch v. Randolph

MASON, Justice.

This is an appeal by Harold Randolph, defendant and cross-petitioner, from an order of the trial court denying his motion for continuance seeking retention of the case on the docket to avoid dismissal for want of prosecution.

A. B. Crouch and Robert Taylor, both licensed attorneys at law, instituted a law action to recover from defendant Howard Randolph, father by adoption of two minor daughters, for legal services and counseling purportedly furnished the two minor girls.

In the early part of 1965 Crouch and the law firm he was then associated with had represented Lillian…