Luce

This is an action to recover the sum of $4,166.68, alleged to be the balance due on the annual salary of respondents as the attorneys of appellant, from the first day of March, 1892, up to and including the last day of February, 1893, with interest thereon. On the first day of March, 1889, the law firm of Luce, McDonald & Torrance, which up to that time had been acting as the attorneys of appellant, at a salary of $83.33 per month, wrote a letter to the land and" town company, appellant, explaining the condition of the corporation’s legal affairs at that time, and asserting that for some time thereafter an extra amount of labor would devolve upon them as attorneys of the company, by reason of important cases then pending. Among other matters this letter contained the following statement: “We have, as before stated, given the matter very careful consideration, and have concluded that, until these important matters in litigation are disposed of, an annual salary of $5,000 is the least sum for *728 which we ought to take upon ourselves the labor and responsibilities incident to continuing our position as general attorneys for the company in this county and state.” In due course, the…