Legal Opinion
Weatherly v. Longoria
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided May 31, 1956No. 13020PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
W. O. MURRAY, Chief Justice.
This controversy was begun by a sworn motion for judgment, under the provisions of Art. 317, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Stats., by Armando Longoria against Gerald Weath-erly, an attorney at law, seeking to compel him to pay over to movant the sum of $2,250 alleged to have been collected by the attorney for movant, who at the time was Weatherly’s client. Movant offered to allow the attorney a reasonable fee for his services in collecting the money.
The sworn motion states that on March 31, 1954, movant signed a written contract employing the attorney to collect for him his…
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