Boyles v. Leonardo

The action was brought to recover a judgment for attorney fees which the plaintiff alleged were performed by his assignors for the plaintiff in a certain divorce ease commenced by the defendant. The trial court awarded the plaintiff a decree and the defendant has appealed therefrom.

Prior to May 23, 1921, Joseph J. Leonardo and Mary Leonardo had been husband and wife. Either as his separate property in part, or as community property at least in part, they were at that time possessed of a number of pieces of property of considerable value. Some of those properties were in Portugal and some were…