Thorn v. Smith
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Tayloe as a part of-the opinion: Action to recover for legal services and for money expended for and on behalf of the defendant. As to thé larger part of the alleged services, the defendant denied that he had employed the plaintiff, or that such services were performed for him.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. The following statement of the case was prepared by Mr. Justice Tayloe as a part of-the opinion: Action to recover for legal services and for money expended for and on behalf of the defendant. As to thé larger part of the alleged services, the defendant denied that he had employed the plaintiff, or that such services were performed for him. He also set up some payments raadé to the plaintiff, and also three counterclaims upon three promissory notes given by the plaintiff to-third persons, and transferred to the defendant before the…
1Opinion of the CourtTayloe, J.
"We are urged very strongly bjr the learned counsel for the appellant to reverse the judgment on the ground that the evidence does not sustain the findings of fact as to the value of the services of the plaintiff, as found by the referee and confirmed by the court. Upon a review of the evidence, it is very clear that the value of the services as found by the referee is not only sustained by the testimony in the case, but by a clear preponderance of such testimony. We cannot, therefore, reverse the judgment, as against the clear preponderance of the evidence in the case.
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