Case Name: BAKER, Appellant, v. DONNELLY, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1911-01-31
Citations: 127 N.Y.S. 1110
Docket Number: 
Parties: BAKER, Appellant, v. DONNELLY, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 127
Pages: 1110–1110

Head Matter:
BAKER, Appellant, v. DONNELLY, Respondent.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department.
January 31, 1911.)
Action by Herman H. Baker against Eugene J. Donpelly, as executor, etc.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The records from the office of the clerk of the county of Kings, and the oral testimony of the witnesses Roy and Sparks, fully establish the relation of attorney and Client between plaintiff and defendant's testator. From that relation the law presumes an obligation to pay the reasonable value of the services. There was evidence as to the value of the greater portion of these. As none of this evidence was contradicted, the trial judge erred in directing judgment for defendant upon the merits. The witness Lucia was competent to testify. He was not a person interested in the event, nor did plaintiff derive title to the subject-matter of the action from him by assignment or otherwise. Judgment of the Municipal Court reversed, and new trial ordered; costs to abide the event.