169 Iowa 675 | Iowa | 1915
The jury must necessarily have decided whose account of the transaction was correct, but counsel for appellant contends that evidence of the employment of other counsel and the amount finally allowed as alimony was not admissible. Evidence of the employment of other counsel and institution of suit by them established his discharge and was admissible for that purpose at least. And if in consequence of plaintiff’s advice the allowance of alimony was larger than it would otherwise have been, evidence thereof would have a direct bearing on the value of the services rendered and for this reason was rightly received. That the allowance may have ■been procured through other attorneys can make no difference, for the object was not to show, what other attorneys had done or the value of their services, but that the advice of plaintiff was such as should have been given and that defendant had derived an advantage therefrom.
YI. Special interrogatories were requested by defendant as follows: (1) ‘ “ Did the defendant ask plaintiff to commence
the SUÍt at 0nCe?” (2) the Plaintiff> after he refused to bring suit, unreasonably delay the commencement thereof ?” (3) “Did the defendant at or about the time of employ-
ing other attorneys, ask plaintiff how much she owed him and did he say in reply that she owed him nothing?”
The judgment is — Affirmed.