Cook v. Irion

BARROW, Justice.

This is an action for legal malpractice. Appellants brought suit to recover actual and exemplary damages from appellees for their alleged negligence in handling a claim for damages sustained by appellants as the result of a fall by Mrs. Cook on a sidewalk at the Charles Bassett Community Center in El Paso on August 2, 1962. At the conclusion of appellants’ case, the trial court sustained appellees’ motion for instructed verdict and entered a take-nothing judgment.

In February 1963, appellants employed appellee John C. Akard on a contingent fee basis to assert their claim for…