T. W. Warner Co. v. Andrews

CHASE, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Eli J. Blair, is an attorney at law who was employed by the appellee to act as its attorney in litigation between it and one Archie M. Andrews. The employment was at the beginning that of a firm of attorneys of which the appellant was formerly a member, but later the appellant withdrew from that firm and took over the conduct of the litigation with the consent of the appellee and all others concerned. The agreement under which appellant’s former firm acted was to conduct two actions for $16,000 which was paid in cash and 10 per cent, of whatever amounts…