Johnston v. Board of County Commissioners

Citations

• 12 N.M. 237
• 78 P. 43

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS.</p> <p>1. An account for unpaid salary, as district attorney of Bernalillo county, void under the Bateman Act, was revived by chapter 39, Laws of 1901, and said county was thereby made liable to pay the same.</p> <p>2. The personal representative of an attorney who performed services under a contract for fees, but died before full performance, can recover only such reasonable proportion of the contract price as the services performed bears to the whole services contracted for, or as otherwise stated, the reasonable value of the services performed.</p>