Sayers

This is an application for a writ of certiorari. The petition alleges that in August, 1888, Nathan S. Sanford commenced an action for divorce against his wife, Hattie T. Sanford, in the superior court of the city and county of San Francisco; that the default of the defendant for failure to answer was duly entered on December 3,1888, and on the following day the cause was regularly tried and submitted for decision; that a decree of divorce was entered in favor of plaintiff on February 1, 1889; that on December 13th the defendant therein employed petitioner as her counsel to represent her in the proceeding; that he gave the defendant advice, but did not contest the application for divorce, owing to a misunderstanding as to certain instructions from the defendant; that the value of his services exceeded the sum of five hundred dollars; that it was understood between all the attorneys representing the parties to the action, that if the divorce should be granted, the defendant should be allowed one hundred dollars per month under certain conditions, and it was further understood that petitioner should receive the sum of five hundred dollars as counsel fees for services rendered in the…