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BROWN v. SHAFFER

No. 1494.

106 A.2d 700 (1954)

BROWN v. SHAFFER et al.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided July 28, 1954.

Rehearing Denied September 20, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward L. Genn, with whom Nathan M. Brown and Benjamin B. Brown, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Paul Lee Sweeny, Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before CAYTON, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.

CAYTON, Chief Judge.

The question is whether the trial court was right in directing a verdict for defendant in a suit for an attorney's fee.

The attorney's claim as developed by his own testimony was that at the request of the appellees, Mr. and Mrs. Shaffer, he had agreed to file court proceedings in Arlington, Virginia, to contest the will of the mother of appellee, Lester Shaffer; that his fee was to be one-third of the Shaffers' one-half share of the gross...

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