Brauns v. Housden

This controversy is an offshoot of an action brought by Daisy Brauns, as administratrix of the estate of August E. Brauns (Brauns v. Housden, 186 Wash. 149, 56 P. (2d) 1313), and is wholly con cerned with the division of fees among the attorneys who acted for plaintiff in that action.

August E. Brauns was killed in an automobile accident November 9, 1934. His widow, Mrs. Daisy Brauns, employed Alfred Gfeller, who had acted as attorney for the deceased for a number of years, to probate the estate and to bring a wrongful death action. Mr. Gfeller, who had become quite deaf and had not engaged in…