Perrin

These are two appeals—one from a judgment for the plaintiff entered upon a verdict of a jury in his favor for the sum of twenty thousand dollars; the other an appeal by said plaintiff from an order granting the defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The action was instituted by the plaintiff as the assignee of two claims for legal services alleged to have been rendered to the defendant by his assignors, the first being a claim for such services by Barclay Henley, alleged to have been reasonably worth the sum of fifty thousand dollars, upon which payments aggregating seven thousand dollars were alleged to have been made; the second consisting of a claim for like services on the part of J. E. Harper for fifty thousand dollars, upon which. no payments were alleged to have been made.

Upon the trial the undisputed evidence showed that upon the first of these claims payments aggregating the sum of $3,270, and upon the second the sum of $3,690, had been made. The jury returned a general verdict upon the first of these claims for the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, and upon the second for the sum of five thousand dollars. A motion for a new trial was made upon all statutory grounds, upon…