Powell v. Hamilton

LESTER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellee, Tom M. Hamilton, against John Rush Powell as Independent Executor of the Estate of R. D. Powell, deceased, to recover judgment for the sum of $500 and interest as an attorney’s fee for services rendered by appellee to said R. D. Powell upon an hral contract with the^ said Powell. Appellee alleged that Powell’s wife died, leaving a will in which she devised several pieces of property to persons other than he, the said R. D. Powell; that Powell desired said property and employed appellee to secure it for him, agreeing to pay him $500…