Wheeler

This is an action against the appellant and West Coast Engineering Company, a corporation, to recover the sum of five hundred dollars alleged to be due the plaintiff for professional services rendered by plaintiff as an attorney at law. The complaint alleged that the services were reasonably worth six hundred dollars and admitted the payment of one hundred dollars. Defendant Houston, Gore & Loy appeals from the judgment, which was for the sum demanded. Judgment by default was rendered against West' Coast Engineering Company.

It is appellant’s contention that only a small part of the services detailed by plaintiff were performed for appellant, and that the remaining services were performed by plaintiff for West Coast Engineering Company and related to matters in which appellant could not, and did not, have any interest. Appellant further claims that there is no evidence by which the court could determine the value of the services actually rendered for appellant.

At the trial appellant conceded that the entire services rendered were worth six hundred dollars, but not that all the services rendered were for appellant. From the testimony as printed in the briefs it appears that at…