Holbrook v. Moore

The plaintiff recovered a verdict and judgment against the defendant for attorney’s fees earned by plaintiff in five cases wherein he had formerly represented the defendant.

In appealing, defendant urges that the trial court erred in permitting plaintiff to introduce in evidence the files of several criminal cases in which the defendant was not involved. The defendant says that this tended to associate him, in the minds of the jury, with persons who had been convicted of felonies.

The files in the cases were admissible. The evidence reveals that the plaintiff was representing the accused…