Butler v. McDaniel

CRAMER, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order quashing a writ of garnishment. Appellants are attorneys who filed the main suit against James M. McDaniel and Mildred L. McDaniel to recover an attorney’s fee of $10,000 plus $171.91 as necessary expenses incurred by them, all alleged.to be due them under a written contract of employment in which Mrs. McDaniel employed them to represent her in a divorce suit against her husband, James M. McDaniel. Appellants, in an alternative count, also sued in quantum meruit.

The garnishees in their answer admitted that they held $15,274.70 to the credit of…