Lemond v. Jamail

OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

GERALD T. BISSETT, Senior Judge,

Sitting by Assignment.

Appellant James Lemond’s motion for rehearing is granted. The previous opinion delivered by this Court on September 15, 1988, and the judgment rendered on that date, are withdrawn, and this opinion, and the accompanying judgment are substituted therefor.

This is an appeal by James Lemond, plaintiff/appellant (“Lemond”), an attorney, from a take-nothing judgment rendered in a suit to recover a “referral fee” of one-third of the net attorney’s fees paid to John Gano (“Gano”) in a case that was settled by the…