142 S.W. 1006 | Tex. App. | 1911
This suit was brought by appellant, an attorney at law, against appellee to recover the amount due upon a contract for professional services. The petition declared upon a verbal contract, and the trial court sustained exceptions to the petition on the ground that a contract for professional services made by an attorney with a drainage district organized under the statutes of this state (Acts of 30th Legislature, p. 91) is required to be in writing, and must be approved in writing by the county judge. The plaintiff declined to amend, and his suit was dismissed.
The questions presented by this appeal have been recently decided by the Court of Appeals for the Fourth District in the case of Matagorda County Drainage District v. Gaines Corbett,
It follows from these conclusions that the trial court erred in sustaining the exceptions to the petition on the grounds stated, and that the judgment should be reversed and the cause remanded, and it has been so ordered.
Reversed and remanded.