Muldoon v. West End Chevrolet, Inc.

These are two actions by an attorney to recover "fair and adequate compensation” for legal services "and for the results achieved” in connection with Federal income tax adjustments for the years 1951, 1952, and 1953 proposed against each of the defendants. The tax adjustments (which involved matters shown by the exhibits to be of a type likely to raise controversial issues of law and fact) in the aggregate would have increased the defendants’ taxes by $105,000. The aggregate tax liability of the defendants following the plaintiff’s representation of them before the Internal Revenue Service…