Roehm A. West v. The H. K. Ferguson Company, a Corporation, and MacCo Corporation, a Corporation, a Joint Venture and Callery Chemical Company

HILL, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from an order fixing and determining an attorney fee after the filing of the statutory lien notice in the litigation wherein such fee is claimed on a quantum meruit basis. After an evidentiary hearing the trial judge made adequate and complete findings of fact and, as we view the case, the only substantial question here concerns the sufficiency of the evidence to support those findings. Appellant is the attorney, who seeks a fee higher than that allowed in the trial court and appellee is the litigant from whom the fee is sought.

The facts surrounding the…