128 Ala. 561 | Ala. | 1900
The plaintiff declared on the common counts for work and labor done and for legal services performed by the plaintiff for the defendant. The defendant filed four pleas, all of which except the second are in denial of the plaintiff’s cause of action and amount to the general issue. The second plea is a plea of payment.. There are only three assignments of error in the record. The first is to the giving of the written charge No. 1, requested by appellee, plaintiff in the court below. The other two are the refusal of the court to give 2d and 4th written charges requested by appellant.
The charge given at the instance of the appellee to which exceptions were reserved correctly states the law, both as to implied promise to pay a fair and reasonable compensation for services performed, as well as to the burden of proof. lit is a well settled proposition of law in this State that where in the absence of an express contract valuable services rendered by one person to another, which are knowingly accepted, the law will imply a promise to pay a fair and reasonable compensation for such services. — Hood v. Logan, 102 Ala. 228; White v. Brewer, 56 Ala. 570.
The appellee claimed nothing under a special con
The appellee made no claim for any commissions on receiver’s certificates and offered no evidence looking to such commission, consequently -charge number four requested by the appellant was properly refused as being abstract. — 3 Brick. Dig. 113, § 106. We find no error in the record.
The judgment of the -court below will be affirmed.