McGovern v. Gilbert

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Daniel A. McGovern III, a practicing attorney of New Orleans, La., instituted this suit in quantum meruit against the defendant, Price T. Gilbert, his client, endeavoring to recover the sum of $8,000, representing the value of professional services he had rendered in effecting the re-zoning of about 9J4 1 acres of defendant’s property from “A-Residential” to “F-Heavy Commercial”, fronting on Chef Menteur Highway in the City of New Orleans. Plaintiff asserts no fee during any period of his employment had been agreed upon, that the fee ultimately charged was reasonable;…