Wicks-Nease v. James

ELY, Associate Justice.

This is a suit .to recover attorney’s fees alleged to be due appellants on two promissory notes, one for $18,000 and the other for $7000, the attorney’s fees being for 10 per cent on those two sums. The case was tried by the court, and resulted in a judgment for appellee.

The evidence showed that James P. Hickman had, in 1892, executed a note to E. D. L. Wickes for the sum of $18,000, and in 1893 executed to Mrs. E. A. T. Mease (then Wickes) a note for $7000, each of said notes providing for interest and attorney’s fees. This language was used in the first named note:…