Verner v. Sullivan

Citations

• 26 S.C. 327
• 2 S.E. 391
• 1887 S.C. LEXIS 64

Syllabus

<p>1. An attorney at law, employed as assistant counsel in a cause, argued it on Circuit, and prepared an argument for the hearing on appeal, and gave this argument to the attorney of record. He then asked for a payment, which being refused, he brought action for his fee. Held, that the plaintiff had not abandoned the cause, and that a motion for non-suit was properly refused.</p> <p>2. An attorney,.not employed by special contract for an entire case, who abandons the case without detriment to his client, may recover on a quantum meruit for the services actually rendered.</p> <p>3. In this case there was no entire contract, and the plaintiff was entitled to recover.</p>