McDearmon v. Gordon & Gremillion

Carleton Harris, Chief Justice.

This appeal relates to the validity of a contingent fee contract in a domestic relations case. On November 14, 1967, George W. Mc-Dearmon, a resident of Shoffner, Jackson County, Arkansas, instituted suit for absolute divorce in the Jackson County Chancery Court against his wife, Cleo Watson McDearmon, appellant herein, a resident of Louisiana, alleging general indignities pursued to the extent as to render his condition in life intolerable. Mrs. McDearmon had already instituted a suit in Louisiana for legal separation through her attorney, Amos K. Gordon, Jr.,…