Gerokoulis v. Cohen

This is a bill for an accounting of money retained by the defendant as a fee for legal services performed as attorney for the plaintiffs. The material facts as found by the trial judge are as follows: The plaintiffs as trustees of the Gerokoulis Realty Trust owned a parcel of land on Harrison Avenue in Boston, the fee of which was taken by the city under an order of taking entered September 19, 1955. On January 18, 1956, the trustees employed the defendant, an attorney at law, to effect a settlement of their claim for damages under a written agreement as to his fee which, so far as material,…