Baker v. Whitaker

HANNA, Judge.

This action involves a dispute over attorney fees between Elvira Baker, 1 now deceased, and her former attorneys, Glen Whitaker and Robert Shirkey, who represented her in a personal injury suit. The court entered judgment in favor of Ms. Baker for the amount of three unpaid medical bills and both parties appealed. Reversed and remanded.

On April 14, 1989, Ms. Baker was struck and run over by a school bus owned by D & R Transportation (D & R) as she was walking in a crosswalk at the intersection of Linwood and Woodland Avenue. The accident occurred when the school bus, driven by…