Legal Opinion
Forman v. Kennedy
Supreme Court of Florida
Decided July 24, 1945PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BUFORD, J.:
By this appeal we are required to review a final decree entered in a suit in which an attorney sought to enforce- a lien for agreed attorney’s fees as against a fund which had been recovered pursuant to a compromise settlement of the judgment recovered by the attorney.
The compromise settlement was negotiated and made over the protest of the attorney and after notice to client that in case of such compromise settlement he would demand payment of his full agreed contingent fee based upon the amount of the judgment which had been recovered by him.
The Chancellor on issues joined and…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Scott v. KirtleySupreme Court of Florida · 1933
- Miller v. GeeserMissouri Court of Appeals · 1915
- Miller v. ScobieSupreme Court of Florida · 1943
- Alyea v. HamptonSupreme Court of Florida · 1933
- Knabb v. MabrySupreme Court of Florida · 1939
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Daniel Mones, PA v. SmithSupreme Court of Florida · 1986
- Litman v. FINE, JACOBSON, SCHWARTZDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1987
- United States v. Transocean Air Lines, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
- In Re the Estate of WarnerSupreme Court of Florida · 1948
- Arabia v. SiedleckiDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 2001
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