Payette v. Willis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

White, J.

A motion has been made by the respondent to dismiss this appeal, but, from the view we take of the case, it is unnecessary to pass upon the same. This is in the nature of a special proceeding, and the complaint, stripped of abounding verbiage, amounts to this: That the respondent is a practicing attorney; that prior *301to the 16th of December, 1896, the appellant employed the respondent to represent Mm as an attorney in a suit to set aside a deed (Payette v. Ferrier, 20 Wash. 479, 55 Pac. 629) and to reinvest title in the land mentioned in the…