Williams v. Foster

HITZ, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal by defendant below from a decree in equity adjudging him hable for portions of certain attorneys’ fees collected by him from eases in which he and Robert M. Foster, both lawyers, had engaged by agreement between them.

As Dolores Foster is a party only by assignment of her husband’s interest, we will refer to Mr. Foster as plaintiff and to Mr. Williams as defendant.

The defendant had been practicing law in the District of Columbia for some years, and, desiring a junior associate, took the plaintiff into employment or partnership for one year beginning…