Wynn v. Rahal

The plaintiffs’ attorney contended that the defendant owed the plaintiffs $400 in rent, and that he had a contract with his clients for 15 per cent, of the recovery as attorney’s fees, and that the plaintiffs and the defendant settled among themselves by agreeing to a “square off,” that is, the plaintiffs were to- dismiss their suit upon the condition of the defendant’s *693dismissal of his claim; that the plaintiffs had not paid him his fee, and he sought leave of the court to proceed with the trial of the cases for the purpose only of recovering attorney’s fees. The defendant denied that any…