Bjornson v. Corbitt

OPINION

JOE SPURLOCK, II, Justice.

Appellees, Richard J. Corbitt, III and Jack Manning, attorneys, brought this suit in intervention in a divorce case involving James Stanley Bjornson, appellant, and his former wife. The intervention was brought after final judgment had been granted in the case, and was a suit to collect attorneys’ fees owing in the approximate sum of $17,000, to be paid out of funds in the court registry. The trial court granted a default judgment for appellees on their claim against appellant, and he appeals.

We reverse and remand.

Bjornson raises five points of error claiming…