Crockett & Brown, P.A. v. Courson

The limited facts stated in the majority opinion, while correct, do not give a reader a complete understanding of the essential factual underpinning of this case—that the attorneys were discharged with just cause and that their services were of little value to the client. The complete facts are as follows. Richard Courson had been turkey hunting at a private hunting club on Tom Steele Island on the Mississippi River. He was walking back to the clubhouse when a poacher, Thomas Averett, apparently mistook him for a turkey and shot him in the face with a load of number six steel shot from…