Sullivan v. Tobin
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Hearing on an appeal by the intervening petitioners from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia dismissing an intervening petition filed by them in a suit for an accounting and dissolution of a partnership. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This appeal is from an order of the supreme court of the District dismissing an intervening petition filed by George E. Sullivan and Walter 0. English, the appellants.
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Hearing on an appeal by the intervening petitioners from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia dismissing an intervening petition filed by them in a suit for an accounting and dissolution of a partnership. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This appeal is from an order of the supreme court of the District dismissing an intervening petition filed by George E. Sullivan and Walter 0. English, the appellants. Theretofore, as members of the bar of the court below, they had filed a bill in equity for the appellee, John Tobin against the appellee W. Maurice…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Robb
The contingent fee agreement set forth in the intervening petition provides that the appellants shall receive as a contingent fee for their “legal services in said case 20 per cent of the first $25,000 that may be recovered” for me (plaintiff) in said suit, or obtained by me from the Arcade Auditorium business during the period of the lease, and '15 per cent of “all sums recovered or obtained by me as aforesaid” above $25,000. The obligation of John Tobin under this agreement was definitely limited to payment out of the fund to be recovered in the suit or obtained by Tobin from the…
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