Van Arman v. Byington

Citations

• 38 Ill. 443

Syllabus

<p>1. Measure of damages—upon a contract for services, where the price is not fixed. When a party engages the services of another, as, of an attorney at law to defend a suit, agreeing to pay him therefor whatever he may see proper to charge, the party for whom the services may be rendered is not precluded by the terms of such an agreement from disputing the charge, but the measure of recovery will be whatever the services were reasonably worth.</p>