Twyeffort v. Unexcelled Manufacturing Co.

The plaintiffs were members of a firm of lawyers, practicing their profession under the name of Twyeffort & DuBois. Twyeffort, while a member of such firm, for a period of about ten years was general counsel for the defendant corporation. The retainer covered “ all legal work of a routine and general nature, exclusive of litigative, out-of-town and out-of-the ordinary services.” When the defendant, on the 15th of February, 1929, terminated the defendant’s employment of Twyeffort, there was still due upon the general retainer the sum of $375, which the defendant never paid. In addition,…