Bright v. Metairie Cemetery Ass'n
Supreme Court of Louisiana
■^PPEAL from the Sixth District Court, parish of Orleans. Hightor, 1.The president of a corporation has tho right to employ an attorney at law without tho authorization of the Board of Directors. 2. ,In a suit on a contract and quantum meruit, evidence is admissible to prove the quantum meruit, and to show that -the plaintiff is entitled to recover independently of the contract. 3. When an attorney is employed for a stipulated fee, and is afterwards dismissed by his client…
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■^PPEAL from the Sixth District Court, parish of Orleans. Hightor, 1.The president of a corporation has tho right to employ an attorney at law without tho authorization of the Board of Directors. 2. ,In a suit on a contract and quantum meruit, evidence is admissible to prove the quantum meruit, and to show that -the plaintiff is entitled to recover independently of the contract. 3. When an attorney is employed for a stipulated fee, and is afterwards dismissed by his client without any fault on his part, ho has a right to recover the whole amount stipulated to be paid. 1. A party suing on a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Poché, J.
Plaintiff, an attorney and counsellor-at-law brings this suit to recover the sum of $3672 20 for professional services rendered to defendant, under an alleged contract, under which he was retained to relieve defendant, by proper legal proceedings, from the payment of a drainage tax, amounting to $11,016 20, assessed against the lands of the association.
He alleges, that under his contract with the company he was to receive as a contingent fee one third of the amount of the tax from which he would succeed in relieving his client, and that he was…
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