Dreeben v. Whitehurst

HARVEY, Presiding Judge.

This suit was brought by the defendant in error, C. M. Whitehurst, against the plaintiff in error, Mrs. Octavine Dreeben, to recover the sum of $5,000 as being the reasonable value of services performed for the latter by the former in procuring the passage by the commissioners’ court of Dallas county of a certain order hereinafter set out. The case was tried to a jury, on special issues, resulting in a verdict and judgment in favor of the defendant in error for the sum of $2,500. Mrs. Dreeben appealed, and the Court of Civil Appeals affirmed the judgment of the trial…