Quarberg v. Laundry Store Sales, Inc.

Otis, Justice.

The only issue here raised is the amount to which an injured employee is entitled as reimbursement from his employer’s subrogated compensation carrier for attorney’s fees paid as a result of the employee’s instituting a third-párty action.

Relator, Russell M. Quarberg, was injured in the course of his employment and received compensation from respondent Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company in the sum of ¡ $9,475.37: Thereafter relator brought a common-law action against a third party to recover damages for the same injuries. The contract of retainer in those proceedings provided…