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This is an action to recover the reasonable value of services rendered as an attorney at law. The ease was tried with a jury, and in accordance with its verdict a judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant for the sum of $600. This appeal is from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

The evidence upon both sides presented has been read and considered. Very briefly the facts are as follows: The plaintiff testified that he rendered the defendant certain services as an attorney at law; that the reasonable compensation for such services was $1,000. He rendered a bill, however, for $750, and sued for this amount. His testimony as to the services rendered and as to their value was corroborated. The defendant did not dispute that the plaintiff had rendered the services, but claimed that they were performed, not as an attorney at law but as an expert bookkeeper, and that they were not so extensive as claimed by plaintiff, and that the reasonable value of the same was $265, and introduced evidence to that effect.

It thus appears that there is a conflict in the evidence; and as there is evidence to sustain the verdict of the jury, this court,…