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MADDOX v. FIDELITY INVESTMENT & TITLE CO.

No. 8461.

300 F.2d 1 (1962)

Luther Robinson MADDOX, Appellant, v. FIDELITY INVESTMENT & TITLE CO., Inc., and James C. Christopher, As Secretary thereof and Individually, F. Archie Meatyard, Jr., Individually and as Attorney for District Supply, Inc., et al., Owen E. Osborne, Raymond O. Shroyer, and Mary K. Shroyer, His Wife, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 5, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luther Robinson Maddox, pro se.

James J. Doyle, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (Sherbow & Sherbow, Hecht & Hecht, and Isaac Hecht, Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellees Raymond O. Shroyer and Mary K. Shroyer.

B. Conway Taylor, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (Due, Nickerson, Whiteford & Taylor, Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellees Title Co., Christopher, Meatyard and Osborne.

Before HAYNSWORTH and BOREMAN, Circuit Judges, and PREYER, District Judge.

L. RICHARDSON PREYER, District Judge.

The plaintiff Maddox, an attorney, established an attorney-client relationship in April, 1954, with the defendants Shroyer. Plaintiff had defendants Shroyer execute three contracts of employment and various other documents purporting to protect plaintiff's fees for professional services. When plaintiff failed satisfactorily to conclude their legal difficulties in a reasonable time, defendants Shroyer discharged him in September...

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