Owen v. Dudley & Michener

Citations

• 217 U.S. 488
• 30 S. Ct. 602
• 54 L. Ed. 851
• 1910 U.S. LEXIS 1975

Syllabus

<p>In this case a contract made by the attorney of record with associate .counsel for professional services to be paid out cf fee:, in an- Indian litigation in the Court of Claims construed; and, although -the contract provided that in case the fees were not provided for by legislation but had to be proved each party should prove, his fee indo pendently, held, that as the attorney of record had coliooted without legislation the entire fee originally contemplated and allowable he must account for the amount so collected by him and pay the associate counsel the amount agreed under the contract.</p> <p>31 App. D. C. 177, affirmed.</p>