CITY OF ELKHART v. SMITH ET AL.

No. 19,710.

135 Ind. App. 108 (1963)

191 N.E.2d 522

CITY OF ELKHART v. SMITH ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Indiana.

Rehearing denied September 17, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard R. Reynolds, City Attorney, of Elkhart, for appellant.

Austin C. Gildea, of Elkhart, for appellees.


CLEMENTS, J.

This is an action to recover attorneys' fees as damages on an injunction bond. The issue was whether the City of Elkhart could, and did, properly employ the law firm of Cawley & Byron to represent it in Cause No. 24885 in the Elkhart Superior Court, so that counsel fees paid by the city were recoverable as damages.

The trial was before the court. The court ruled for the defendants-appellees and againt the appellant, City of Elkhart.

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