Kirkpatrick v. Patterson

STUART, Justice.

The only question presented here is the court’s ruling on attorney fees to be allowed plaintiff’s attorney under section 85.22(1) which provides:

“If compensation is paid the employee * * * [under workmen’s compensation] * * * the employer by whom the same was paid, or his insurer which paid it, shall be indemnified out of the recovery of damages to the extent of the payment so made, with legal interest, except for such attorney fees as may be allowed, by the district court, to the injured employee’s * * * attorney.”

On July 13, 1966, plaintiff, while in the course of his…