Succession of Landry
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Walter Byers Sommerville, Judge. In the matter of the succession of George Landry. From a judgment enforcing a contract for attorney’s fees, Augustin, Daniel appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
This is an appeal by Augustin Daniel from a judgment recognizing and enforcing a contract alleged to have made by him with two attorneys, by which, in compensation of services to be rendered by them in a certain litigation, he agreed to pay them one-half of whatever they might recover. The defenses are that the contract was never entered into, and, if entered into, is null because champertous. The appellant is one of several collateral heirs, all the others of whom entered into the same contract, and have not - contested same. The case is submitted both on the merits and on motion to dismiss.
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