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ASHCRAFT AND GEREL v. LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY

No. 18591.

343 F.2d 333 (1965)

ASHCRAFT AND GEREL, Appellant, v. LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 18, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Joseph H. Koonz, Jr., Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Martin E. Gerel, Lee C. Ashcraft and William E. O'Neill, Jr., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. James A. Belson, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Paul R. Connolly, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and BURGER and McGOWAN, Circuit Judges.

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, a law partnership, sued to collect a legal fee assertedly owing from appellee, a workmen's compensation insurance carrier for a local employer. The fee was said to have been earned by reason of appellant's professional exertions in pressing the injured employee's1 claim for negligence against a third party, resulting in a settlement large enough both to cover appellee's total payments to the employee...

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