Beall v. Clack
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Taylor County Court; E. M. Overshiner, Judge. Suit by E. E. Clack against J. H. Beall and others. From a judgment of the county court for plaintiff on appeal from the justice court, defendants Beall, Smith, and Spencer bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.
On June 1, 1913, J. C. Ham, president of, and acting for, the Ham Lumber Company, a corporation-located at Mer-kel, Tex., employed E. E. Clack, an attorney residing at Sweetwater, to collect or adjust a judgment in favor of the lumber company against one R.. P. Arnold, and agreed to give Clack a one-half interest in said judgment for his services in collecting it. By said agreement Clack was invested with full power to collect or adjust said judgment upon such terms as he might deem proper, and to release the same, and his services were to continue until the collection had been effect-, ed.…
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