Courtin v. Lenz

Plaintiff, an attorney, prosecutes this appeal from a judgment of the First City Court of New Orleans maintaining defendant's exceptions of want of jurisdiction ratione materiae, nonjoinder of parties defendant, and no cause of action, and dismissing plaintiff's suit, in which he sued defendant for $200 on a quantum meruit for professional services rendered defendant's wife in representing her in a suit in which she successfully obtained a judgment of divorce from defendant.

The proceedings from which the judgment of divorce emanated were commenced by the husband, who sought a divorce on the…