Harper v. J.B. Wells Estate

NORRIS, Judge.

The plaintiff, Ed C. Harper, sued the Estate of J.B. Wells for the balance allegedly due on an agreement they entered before Wells’s death in May 1988. Harper alleged that Wells contracted with him to restore a 1929 Ford Model A Tudor; that he performed the work; and that after credit for payments already made, the estate owed him $13,582.18 for parts and labor. Harper also sought a writ of sequestration which was granted and dissolved before trial. The estate reconvened, *896seeking unpaid legal fees of $2,541.67. The matter went to trial in April 1989; by judgment of January 1990…