Klein v. Dula

Plaintiff, an attorney, brought this action to recover the reasonable value of services rendered by him to the defendant’s wife. These services, the complaint alleged, were rendered to the defendant’s wife in an action brought against her husband for a separation and also in another ancillary action brought to obtain the setting aside of the transfer of certain securities, alleged to have been made by the husband to his father for the purpose of avoiding his obligation to support his wife. The defense is to the effect that plaintiff has been awarded in the action for separation, alimony and…