Wickersham v. Crittenden

This is an appeal by the appellants, Crittenden and the Bank of San Luis Obispo, from an order of the superior court directing its clerk to pay certain moneys to the respondent, Wickersham, for attorneys’ fees, alleged to have been paid out by him to his attorneys in certain actions.

Wickersham and Crittenden were stockholders in the Bank of San Luis Obispo, a corporation—Crittenden owning a fraction over one-half of the capital stock of the bank, and Wickersham owning about two-thirds of the other half. They disagreed about the business and management of the bank, and Wickersham brought two actions against Crittenden, the bank, and certain other defendants. He alleged in his complaint in each action that he brought it for himself and stockholders other than the defendants. In one of the actions he recovered judgment, “ to and for the use of the Bank of San Luis Obispo,’’ against Crittenden, for live hundred and forty-eight dollars and nineteen cents, together with “ his costs and disbursements herein, taxed at the sum of one hundred and eleven dollars and thirty cents.’’ In the other action he recovered judgment against Crittenden for two thousand seven hundred and sixteen…