Bullis v. Easton
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Winneshiek District Court.- — -Hon. W. A. Hoyt, Judge. Action at law to recover attorney’s fees. The defendant in answer denied the claim, and further pleaded that he retained plaintiff in certain litigation which he contemplated having with his wife; that, at about the time of the commencement of this litigation, plaintiff, in violation of his duties as an attorney, made various statements derogatory of defendant’s case, and encouraged and induced his…
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Appeal from Winneshiek District Court.- — -Hon. W. A. Hoyt, Judge. Action at law to recover attorney’s fees. The defendant in answer denied the claim, and further pleaded that he retained plaintiff in certain litigation which he contemplated having with his wife; that, at about the time of the commencement of this litigation, plaintiff, in violation of his duties as an attorney, made various statements derogatory of defendant’s case, and encouraged and induced his (defendant’s) wife to make a defense to the action which defendant had brought against her; that these matters came to the…
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
*5151 *514The deposition of defendant’s wife, ■from whom he had been divorced in the litigation out of which this suit arose, was taken in the city of New York, at which place she at the time resided. In this deposition she testified to having received a paper containing a published notice of the divorce suit brought by her husband against her; that she clipped this notice from the paper, and sent it to the plaintiff, with the request that he act as her attorney; that in *515response thereto she received two' letters from the plaintiff, which she then had in her possession. She was then ashed to produce…
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