Fox & Assocs. Co. v. Purdon

The defendant-appellant asks that this court depart from a rule established in Scheinesohn v. Lemonek, supra, and followed in *71Roberts v. Montgomery, supra, paragraph two of the syllabus, in which we held that where it is proven that an express contingency fee contract between a lawyer and a client is breached by the client without just cause, “the measure of damages in such case is not limited to the reasonable value of the services rendered by the lawyers employed prior to the cancellation of the contract,” but rather damages should be for the full contract price.

Defendant argues that such a…