Mickens v. Lawrence Paper Manufacturing Co.

The opinion, of the court was delivered by

Hutchison, J.:

This appeal is supplemental to and an outgrowth of the case of Mickens v. Hill, 126 Kan. 794, 271 Pac. 279, and concerns only the question of attorney fee of the plaintiff’s attorney in that case. It was a compensation case in which there was a written contract between plaintiff and his attorney for 50 per cent of the amount of recovery actually collected by the plaintiff, and the required notice had been served on the defendant to constitute an attorney’s lien. The judgment which was affirmed in this court was *150for $4,400, on which…