Beck v. Dutchman Coalition Mines Co.

WOLFE, Chief Justice.

Action by the appellant, plaintiff below, to recover $10,000 for legal and other services which he rendered the respondent corporation, defendant below, during a thirty year period extending from 1921 to 1951. The respondent resisted the action on the ground that it had paid the appellant for all his services except the sum of $1,000, and that his action was barred by the four-year statute of limitations on actions to recover on contract, Sec. 78-12-25, Utah Code Annotated 1953. From a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of the appellant for $1,500, he prosecutes…