Legal Opinion
Lake v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided January 12, 1931PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMehaffy, J.
Some time in the early part of the year 1925, F. C. Nickel employed John Bruce Cox, a lawyer at El Dorado, Arkansas, to collect from John Dashko a commission alleged to have been earned by said' Nickel on a $250,000 oil and gas lease sale. He agreed to pay said John Bruce Cox twenty-five ,per cent, of the amount recovered. After spending some time in an effort to adjust the matter without suit and failing to do so, Cox, with the consent of Nickel, employed J. R. Wilson, another lawyer at El Dorado, Arkansas, to assist him in the case.
Suit was brought in the Union Chancery Court for Nickel…
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