Maiullo v. Genematas

Defendant appeals a judgment in plaintiffs’ favor following a trial without a jury. The plaintiffs, attorneys at law, sued the defendant under one count for breach of a contingent fee agreement and under a separate count for $1,500 allegedly unpaid on a prior bill rendered in 1954. The contingent fee agreement was alleged to have been entered into orally with the defendant William Genematas, surviving director of State-Parkview Creamery Company, of which corporation’s capital stock defendant’s father Nicholas Genematas owned 89.523% and the estate of his deceased uncle George Genematas owned…