McMillan v. Northport Smelting & Refining Co.

Citations

• 49 Wash. 76
• 94 P. 761
• 1908 Wash. LEXIS 529

Syllabus

<p>Attorney and Client — Compensation—Reasonableness. Three thousand five hundred dollars is an unreasonable allowance for attorney’s fees for services rendered in securing a restraining order preventing the dismanteling of a smelter and the removal of machinery, the property being worth $250,000, where it appears that the application therefor was not contested and the order was continued in force from time to time without resistance, the complaint embracing only six pages of typewritten matter (Root, Fullerton, and Crow, JJ., dissenting).</p>