Sterling Milk Products Co. v. Brown

EAGLETON, C.

Gomer Smith and Fred M. Hammer were, by written contract, employed by Cecil Brown to prosecute an ae-r tion against Sterling Milk Products Company for personal injuries received in a collision with one of defendant’s automobiles. The contract provided that the suit should be filed for $5,000, and that the attorneys were to receive a contingent fee equal to 50 per cent, of whatever sum might be recovered by compromise, suit, or final judgment. The suit was filed by these attorneys in cause No. 51351, district court of Oklahoma county: Indorsed on the face of the petition was…