Olmedo v. Romero

HamiltoN, Judge,

delivered the' following opinion:

This is a three-cornered litigation, in wbicb tbe plaintiff alleged in bis complaint that he was employed with defendant Wilcox to prosecute certain litigation for defendant Eomero. *429Under the terms of the contract, which is annexed to the complaint, the two attorneys were to receive 50 per cent of the recovery and out of it pay the legal costs of litigation. During the .progress of the case Olmedo was eliminated as an attorney, and the ease proceeded in charge of defendant, Wilcox. A verdict of $21,080 was finally on November 16, 1915,…