Legal Opinion
Buruzs v. Buruzs
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided December 27, 1996No. 96-CA-1247PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
hJAMES C. GULOTTA, Judge Pro Tem.
This suit by an attorney intervenor for contractual attorney’s fees in connection with his representation of the plaintiff Josef A. Buruzs, resulted in a $1500 quantum meruit award. The attorney, Thomas E. Dunn, ap*1007peals claiming that he is entitled to $40,000 based upon a 40% contract of $100,000 policy limits paid to the plaintiff in this personal injury suit. We affirm.
On December 12, 1993 Buruzs, an appliance repairman, took his four year old son with him on a customer service call. The young boy remained in the parked van, while his father worked in the…
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