Eisner v. Williams

The principal question presented by this appeal is whether the circuit judge was in error in dismissing plaintiffs’ and appellants’ suit in chancery as against one of the defendants, Henry Elliot Williams, appellee.

Plaintiffs are the liquidating trustees of the Port Lauderdale Eeal Estate Company, a Florida corporation. The corporation retained upon a 25 per cent, contingent fee a New York firm of attorneys to institute suit in Florida against defendant Anna Dodge Dillman ancl others. The New York law firm, having express authority so to do, retained defendant Williams as associate counsel,…