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Owens (P) was allegedly injured from alighting from a cable car. P consulted an attorney, Mead, after the accident but did not retain him or do business with him in any manner other than to relate some of the facts of the case to him. Mead was asked to relay those facts to the court, but that was objected to. The objection was sustained. D lost the verdict and appealed.

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