Van Etten v. Butt

The plaintiff in error brought his action against the defendant in error to recover the sum of $90.60, with interest, as a balance alleged to be due him for services rendered as an attorney at law for and at the request of the defendant. The items charged in the plaintiff’s account amount, in the aggregate, to the sum of $294.90, against which the defendant is credited in the petition with several cash items, amounting to $202.30.

The defendant in his answer denies that he is in indebted to the plaintiff in any sum whatever; admits that he employed the plaintiff to defend an attachment suit…