Ransom v. Ransom
New York Supreme Court
Action by attorney to recover for professional services, under a contingent fee contract.
1Opinion of the CourtWhitney, J.
Plaintiff, an attorney at law, claims a one-fifteenth interest in the income and principal of the residuary estate of George Bell, deceased, under an assignment thereof from the defendant Edith 11. Ransom, by way of contingent fee. She contests the fee and the assignment as fraudulent and unconscionable. Her codefendants, the trustees under the will, ask to be advised as to their duties. I shall adopt the plaintiff’s testimony upon this trial as in substance correct, except that I think that, honestly, as I believe, he has much exaggerated in his own memory the completeness with which he gave…
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