Beatcher

The plaintiff brought action against defendant to recover the sum of $3,300, interest and attorney’s fees. The complaint contained two counts, the first being based upon a promissory note in the sum of $2,000 and the second being for money advanced to defendant in the sum of $1300. Defendant answered admitting all the allegations of the first count and admitting the receipt of the $1300 mentioned in the second count. However, as affirmative defense and also by way of counterclaim, he alleged services rendered by him to the plaintiff corporation for which it agreed to pay the reasonable value in the sum of $13,000, of which only the sum of $1300 had been paid. Judgment was rendered upon the verdict of the jury in favor of defendant in the sum of $2,922.17 and costs. The plaintiff prosecutes this appeal from that judgment.

The first contention of appellant is that the court erred in admitting opinion testimony of the witness and defendant Beatcher as to the value “of a man as manager of an automobile finance concern” having the capital and borrowing capacity of the plaintiff. The objection that the witness was not qualified to answer the question, it having been shown that he had…