Maw v. Noble

McDonough, justice.

This appeal challenges a determination that the interest on the damages awarded in a condemnation suit is a part of “amounts recovered” under an attorneys’ contingent fee agreement.

Brack Howard Noble and his wife, Ann, were named defendants in a condemnation suit by the state to take land they owned lying in the path of proposed improvements to U. S. Highway 91 just north of Salt Lake City, near the Salt Lake-Davis County lines. After negotiations with the state upon appraisers’ figures varying between $57,000 - and $72,000 they refused to accept $80,000 from the- state and…