Wall v. Lindner

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Day.

This writ of error is directed to a judgment in the district court of Pueblo County against an attorney for refund of part of the fee collected by him from his client, defendant in error. We will refer to the parties as the attorney and client.

The fee paid was pursuant to a contingency contract in which the client agreed to pay to the attorney a sum equivalent to 50% of any property or moneys recovered in a suit seeking to set aside conveyances of property by the client to a woman under circumstances which the attorney advised the client would probably be provable as…