Burns v. Stewart

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• concluding that a contingent-fee attorney who devotes substantial time, money, and energy to a client’s cause should not be precluded from recovering for the reasonable value of his services if the client terminates the agreement prior to recovery
• concluding that a contingent-fee attorney who devotes substantial time, money, and energy to a client’s cause should not be precluded from recovering for the reasonable value of his services if the client terminates the agreement prior to recovery
• stating the court “should not be unmindful of the equities” and permitting attorney to recover “for the reasonable value of his services” notwithstanding a contractual contingent-fee term
• stating the court “should not be unmindful of the equities” and permitting attorney to recover “for the reasonable value of his services” notwithstanding a contractual contingent-fee term
• permitting contingency fee in action to recover marital property, since divorce was separately provided for in a flat fee agreement and Minnesota law provided for an independent action for separate maintenance, so that property action was not improperly contingent on divorce
• permitting contingency fee in action to recover marital property, since divorce was separately provided for in a flat fee agreement and Minnesota law provided for an independent action for separate maintenance, so that property action was not improperly contingent on divorce

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).