Legal Opinion
Trask v. Shinn
Hawaii Supreme Court
Decided March 19, 1956No. 2996PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT BY
STAINBACK, J.
The defendant-appellant appeals from a judgment rendered against him in an action for assumpsit for the value of legal services rendered him by plaintiff-appellee.
The defendant, a doctor, had engaged plaintiff to defend him in a malpractice suit; subsequent to the termination of the trial of the case by nonsuit granted in the circuit court, plaintiff submitted to defendant a bill for services in the amount of $5,000.
After receiving the bill the defendant went to the plaintiff’s office, as the plaintiff admitted, where there was an argument OA?er this bill.…
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