Legal Opinion
Hoffert v. General Motors Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 14, 1981No. 81-1002PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHARLES CLARK, Circuit Judge.
The controversy in this case is over contingent attorneys’ fees recoverable from the proceeds of a settlement and judgment in favor of Colonel Thomas M. Hoffert and his minor son, John Thomas Hoffert. Co-chrane & Bresnahan, P.A., the law firm representing the plaintiffs, appeals from an order of the district court reducing the firm’s fees from one-third to one-fifth for its services in representing the plaintiffs. We affirm.
On August 15,1978, the fourteen-year-old John Hoffert was severely injured when the 1973 Vega in which he was a passenger collided with a 1962…
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