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INDIAN LAKE ESTATES, INC. v. WALKER

No. 2773.

173 A.2d 486 (1961)

INDIAN LAKE ESTATES, INC., Appellant, v. Charles WALKER, Appellee.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided August 17, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Forbes W. Blair, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mark P. Friedlander, Washington, D. C., for appellee. Mark P. Friedlander, Jr., and Blaine P. Friedlander, Washington, D. C., also entered appearances for appellee.

Before HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges, and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired) sitting by designation under Code § 11-776(b).

QUINN, Associate Judge.

The question in this case was whether appellant corporation was obligated to pay the balance allegedly due on a retainer fee.

At trial, Leon Ackerman, former president of the corporation, testified that he had engaged appellee as general counsel at an agreed salary of $500 a week and after six weeks had terminated his services because of "friction." Appellee testified that he was an attorney specializing in insolvency and corporate...

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