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The plaintiff brought this action to recover the sum of $4,500, alleged to be due as the reasonable value of legal services rendered by plaintiff’s intestate to the defendant, who is also an attorney at law, in connection with an action pending in the United States district court. The defendant admitted that the services were worth the sum of $200 and offered to pay that amount. The offer was declined and the jury rendered a verdict in plaintiff’s favor for the sum of $950. From the judgment entered for that amount the defendant has appealed, after motion for a new trial made and denied. He is apparently not seeking a review of the ruling on motion for a new trial, but confines himself to an attack upon the judgment. We are guided to that conclusion by the opening brief; It becomes necessary, however, to examine into the proceedings' looking to a new trial in order that we may dispose of certain preliminary objections made by respondent to a consideration of the appeal.

[1] Respondent contends that the notice of intention to move for a new trial and the notice of appeal are not the notices required by law. His point is that each is signed only by the defendant personally and by…