Eaton v. King County

Citations

• 75 Wash. 101
• 134 P. 682
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1678

Syllabus

<p>Attorney and Client — Contract on Employment — Construction. There was not a “successful termination of proceedings,” within the meaning of the contract whereby a county employed an attorney, for a fee contingent on such success, to recover escheated property for the benefit of the common school fund of the county, where, after he had done some work in certain cases, and prior to termination thereof, the legislature changed the law by enacting Rem. & Bal. Code, § 1356, vesting escheated estates in the state as part of the permanent common school fund of the state and giving the state board of tax commissioners control over the proceedings, with the advice and assistance of the attorney general and the several county attorneys; and thereunder proceedings were had, on motion of the attorney general, escheating the estates in question to the state of Washington.</p>