Lewis v. Van Valkenburg

1. The evidence authorized a finding that the attorney who was employed on basis of a contingent fee was not entitled to any fee or compensation whatever from his client, the contingency never having happened, and that the client was entitled to recover the corporate stock certificates which she had delivered to him for use in a suit to be filed by him against another in her behalf.

2. Accordingly, the judge in trying the case of the client against the attorney, jury having been waived, did not err in rendering judgment awarding the stock certificates to the client, and in refusing to declare…