Opinion ID: 2604440
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 7

Heading: The Ester L. Berquist Matter

Text: The defendant represented Mrs. Berguist in a divorce suit resulting in a favorable decree on September 2, 1953. The formal decree was not, however, prepared and presented to the court until about two months thereafter and then only after Judge Langtry had made contact with Mr. Reinmiller's office, demanding that it should be done without further delay. The complaint charges that Mr. Reinmiller was withholding the presentation of the decree as a leverage to enforce payment of the balance due for his services. This charge was abandoned by the Bar at the time of trial, leaving for sole consideration the question of undue delay. In the pleadings in the divorce suit certain real property had been described by the tax title number employed by the assessor on the tax rolls. It is defendant's contention that the two months delay following the court's award was incident to securing and setting up in the decree a correct metes and bounds description in lieu of the one previously used. He also claims delay due to press of other work. We do not think that the time taken to accomplish this relatively small detail was justified.