Cox v. Trousdale

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action to recover an attorney’s fee for professional services. Defendant prevailed, and plaintiff appeals.

The facts giving rise to this action may be summarized thus:

The late Thomas A. Noftzger, Esquire, was the head of a firm of lawyers in Wichita for a number of years and so continued until his death in 1931. The plaintiff George W. Cox became his partner in 1914. In 1919 the defendant Walter J. Trousdale became a client of the law firm of Noftzger & Cox. Trousdale had various business activities in which he required the…