Bell v. Gill

Hallie B. Bell filed suit in the municipal court of Macon against Clark D. G-ill to recover $50, as a reasonable attorney’s fee for representing the defendant’s wife in a divorce and alimony suit brought by her against him. The defendant denied liability for the attorney’s fee. Upon the trial the defendant moved orally to dismiss the case on the ground that it did not appear that the divorce and alimony suit filed by the plaintiff on behalf of the defendant’s wife in Bibb superior court had been dismissed. The plaintiff amended the petition, alleging that after he had on behalf of Mrs. Gill…