Shropshire v. Doxey
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Fayette. Tided below before the Hon. George W. Smith. This was a suit brought by J. S. Shropshire against S. H, Boxey for $500, as the value of his services as an attorney, rendered the defendant in the prosecution of a certain .cause for murder.
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Appeal from Fayette. Tided below before the Hon. George W. Smith. This was a suit brought by J. S. Shropshire against S. H, Boxey for $500, as the value of his services as an attorney, rendered the defendant in the prosecution of a certain .cause for murder. Four witnesses, attorneys-at-law, proved the services rendered as alleged, and that they were reasonably worth $500. One of the witnesses testified that it was worth to prosecute the case $1000 or $1500. Several of the witnesses testified to the ability and fidelity with which the plaintiff conducted the proseention. At the time of the…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, C. J.
The witnesses who testified respecting the "nature of the services, all concurred in their estimate; and there was no evidence before the jury to warrant them in finding for the plaintiff less than two hundred and fifty dollars. And yet they returned a verdict for only one hundred and twenty-five dollars. The verdict appears to have been plainly contrary to the evidence. We are unable to perceive any ground upon which a new trial could be rightly refused, and are of opinion that the refusal of it was error, for which the judgment must be reversed and the cause-remanded.
Reversed and remanded*
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