Title Insurance v. Howell

This is a fifteen day motion brought by Mr. Arden Howell, now dead, to recover of the Title Insurance Company of Richmond, the sum of $1,062.51, claimed to be due under a contract of employment. He has recovered a judgment, for the full amount.

Designating the parties as they stood in the trial court the plaintiff, a lawyer in Richmond of standing and experi*716ence, was an expert title examiner. The defendant believed that his services would be valuable to it and set about to secure them. Mr. E. D. Schumacher, who was then its president and chief executive officer, opened negotiations for the…