Griffin v. Hidalgo County

MURRAY, Justice.

This suit was instituted by Gordon Griffin and B. D. Kimbrough, practicing attorneys, against Hidalgo County, to recover a contingent fee in the sum of more than $175,000, alleged to be due under the terms of a written contract of employment entered into on March 17, 1931, between the Commissioners’ Court of Hidalgo County and themselves. R. D. Cox, Jr., another practicing attorney, intervened asserting a claim to an undivided one-third interest in said alleged contingent fee.

The trial was to the court without the intervention of a jury and resulted in judgment in favor of…