Scott v. Kemper Insurance

BEER, Judge.

Doris Ann Scott, individually and on behalf of her minor child, Lionel Bell, sought to prosecute a tort claim and, accordingly, entered into a contingent fee contract with attorney-intervenor E. Howard McCaleb, III. That contract provided, in part:

“In consideration of services rendered or to be rendered, I hereby assign to my said attorney an undivided 3314% interest in and to said claim if it is to be resolved that the claim is one for damages.

It is understood and agreed that neither I nor my said attorney may settle, compromise or dismiss or in any way discontinue *88my claim…