Barthels v. Garrels
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. —Hon. Karl Kimmel, Judge. (1) The evidence offered by movements at' the hearing below was wholly insufficient to sustain the burden of proof placed upon them in this case. Thompson v. Steams, 197 Mo.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. —Hon. Karl Kimmel, Judge. (1) The evidence offered by movements at' the hearing below was wholly insufficient to sustain the burden of proof placed upon them in this case. Thompson v. Steams, 197 Mo. App. 354-356, 195 S. W. 45-46. (2) Where an attorney is employed on a contingent fee consisting of a percentage of the amount recovered, and the client compromises the case, the amount for which the case is settled is the basis on which the attorney’s percentage is to be computed. Curtis v. Metropolitan Street R. Co., 118 Mo. App. 341, 94 S.…
1Opinion of the Court
This is an appeal taken from an order of the circuit court setting aside the satisfaction of its judgment to the amount of the lien claimed thereon by the attorneys for the plaintiff.
Messrs. W.B. and Ford W. Thompson were attorney for August Barthels, plaintiff in a suit for libel instituted September 14, 1911, against W.L. Garrels, defendant. The trial resulted in a verdict and judgment rendered on April 23, 1913, for plaintiff, in the sum of nine thousand dollars, sixty-five hundred dollars being compensatory, and twenty-five hundred dollars exemplary or punitive damages. Mr. T. Percy Carr…
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