Sloan's Estate

Citations

• 161 Pa. 237
• 28 A. 1084
• 1894 Pa. LEXIS 675

Syllabus

<p>Decedents' estates — Allowance of contingent fee to counsel — Contract of next of kin as to counsel fee.</p> <p>When a contingent fee of fifty per cent of the amount of a claim is agreed to be paid to an attorney for collection, the contract implies either that the claim is difficult of proof, or that if reduced to judgment it will be difficult of collection; and such a contract involves at least ordinary diligence on the part of the attorney in order to entitle him to such a fee..</p> <p>While such a contract made by the mother and sole next of kin of a decedent may be binding upon her, it does not bind her descendants, nor the estate toward which she stood in no other relation than that of distributee.</p>