Gugel v. Olin
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dáñe county: G. N. Risjord, Judge. Action by the plaintiff, a Milwaukee lawyer, to recover of the defendants Olin et al., composing the law firm of Olin, Butler, Stebbins & Stroud, practicing at Madison, $400 for legal services rendered at their request and on their implied promise to pay what such services were reasonably worth.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Dáñe county: G. N. Risjord, Judge. Action by the plaintiff, a Milwaukee lawyer, to recover of the defendants Olin et al., composing the law firm of Olin, Butler, Stebbins & Stroud, practicing at Madison, $400 for legal services rendered at their request and on their implied promise to pay what such services were reasonably worth. The plaintiff’s work was performed in 1915 in the case of Pfister v. Gugel, then pending in the circuit court for Dane county, in which the defendant (the brother of the plaintiff in the present action) had employed the…
1Opinion of the CourtWinslow, C. J.
The jury having found that the appellants’ firm employed the plaintiff to assist them upon the understanding (mutual of course) that they were personally to pay him, the vital question in the case is simply whether there is any evidence upon which that finding can stand.
It is certainly a remarkable transaction which the plaintiff claims and which the jury have found. Lawyers are not wont to employ counsel and agree to pay them out of their own pockets, at least lawyers of long experience and exten*326sive practice, but that does not make the plaintiff’s theory incredible. —
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2Cases cited6 opinions
- Wight v. RindshopfWisconsin Supreme Court · 1877
- Taylor v. ThiemanWisconsin Supreme Court · 1907
- Gross v. CadwellWashington Supreme Court · 1892
- Hagar v. WhitmoreSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1890
- Levy v. GillisSuperior Court of Delaware · 1897
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Milwaukee County v. WaltherWisconsin Supreme Court · 1975