White & Yarborough v. Lucius L. Dailey

This is an appeal by the attorneys for plaintiff-appellee from that part of an agreed judgment for $6000 entered in a Texas workmen’s compensation suit 1 which awarded appellant, as plaintiff’s attorneys, a fee of $1000, or one-sixth thereof, instead of $2000, or one-third thereof, the amount plaintiff had agreed with his counsel that they should receive. While, therefore, the plaintiff is named as appellee, and the appeal, if successful, will reduce the $5000 awarded to plaintiff in the judgment to $4000, the appeal does not represent an effort by appellant to obtain a fee greater than…