Mire v. Travelers Insurance Co.

FRUGÉ, Judge.

Plaintiff is an attorney who successfully represented a client in a tort action. He sues Travelers Insurance Company for attorney’s fees in the amount of one-third of the amount recovered by Travelers in an intervention in the tort action. The trial court rendered judgment in favor of the defendant and plaintiff appeals.

This suit is an outgrowth of Simmons v. Travelers Insurance Company et al., 295 So.2d 550 (La.App. 3rd Cir. 1974). In that case the plaintiff herein, Francis Mire, *94represented Jack C. Simmons who was plaintiff in that case. The defendants, among others, were…