123 Iowa 183 | Iowa | 1904
Plaintiff commenced this action, as in equity, to recover the value of services alleged to have been rendered by him for the defendant in bringing suit against one Snyder upon a promissory note, and in examining certain ^records in proceedings in which Snyder was adjudged bankrupt. The petition also alleged plaintiff’s right to an attorney’s lien on the note, which plaintiff asked to be established and enforced by decree of the court. The defendant denied having employed plaintiff in reference to the bankruptcy proceedings, and, as to the note, says it was agreed between them that plaintiff should receive as full compensation for all his services twenty-five per cent, of the amount actually collected by him, and that, if nothing was collected, then plaintiff was to receive nothing. He further pleads, and it is admitted, that no part of the note has been collected.
II. The only other question presented in argument is upon the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict. As to the agreement, if any, between the parties, and as to the plaintiff’s employment in reference to the bankruptcy matters, there was a direct conflict between the testimony of plaintiff and that of defendant. In this condition of the record, it is elementary that we cannot interfere with the verdict of the jury. *
The judgment of the district court is aeeirmed.