Caffrey v. Chem-Ionics Corp.

The present action is by a lawyer against a former client to recover compensation on a quantum meruit basis.

The lawyer had taken a case on a contingent fee and had commenced an action for his client to recover $5,182.06. We shall refer to that as the original action to distinguish it from the present action. Thereafter, the defendant, in the original action, answered and cross-complained for “roughly fifty thousand dollars.”

Differences between the lawyer and his client led to a severance of the lawyer-client relationship. A demand for answer to interrogatories, made by the defendant in the…