Hinckley

This appeal was taken by the defendant from the judgment and from the order refusing a new trial. It is an action to recover $675 for services as attorney at law, alleged to have been rendered defendant “between the first day of June, 1889, and the first day of June, 1891, in prosecuting and defending suits, and for like services, at his request, in drawing, copying, and engrossing of divers conveyances, deeds, and other paper writings, and for divers journeys and other attendances,” etc. The defense consists of a general denial and of six counterclaims for damages alleged to have been caused by the negligence and incompetency of plaintiff as attorney, and of a demand for $125, money due from plaintiff to defendant. The ease was tried with the aid of a jury, which rendered a general verdict against defendant for $325. The defendant not only attempted to recoup damages resulting from alleged negligence and incompetency- of the plaintiff, but he claimed at the trial that such negligence and incompetency justified defendant in discharging plaintiff as his attorney, and that he was compelled to and did discharge him before the services were completed, and, further, that plaintiff had…