Case Name: PRICE v. CRITCHFIELD
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1923-05-25
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 669
Docket Number: No. 752
Parties: PRICE v. CRITCHFIELD
Judges: Funk, Pardee and Washburn, JJ.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 669–669

Head Matter:
No. 674
PRICE v. CRITCHFIELD
Ohio Appeals, 9th District, Wayne County.
No. 752.
Decided May 25th, 1923.
This opinion has not been published except in Abstract.
45- ATTORNEYS.
Liability of client for legal services.
Funk, Pardee and Washburn, JJ.
ATTORNEYS — Daniel C. Funk, for Price; Weygandt & Ross, for Critchfield.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
Epitomized Opinion.
This was an a<tion brought b" Critchfield to recover for legal services and xpenses in connection with a suit brought by Price against the Pennsylvania Railroad. The evidence disclosed that most dUhe services were rendered as an investigator |[^Her than as an attorney. The court rendered a fragment for the plaintiff. The defendent prosecuted enor. In sustaining the judgment of the lower court, the Court of Appeals held:
1. Regardless of whether the services were rendered as an attorney or merely as an investigator the plaintiff was entitled to a judgment for the services so rendered and that substantial justice was done in the rendition of such judgment.