BROWN v. LAMB

No. 21686.

414 F.2d 1210 (1969)

Russell Morton BROWN, Appellant, v. Edward Oliver LAMB and Dispatch, Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 17, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Milton M. Burke, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. N. Meyer Baker, Washington, D. C., for appellees.

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


PER CURIAM:

In this suit to collect legal fees, the issue before us is the propriety of the trial court's grant of judgment in favor of appellees notwithstanding a jury verdict for appellant. The fees in question were billed on June 18, 1957, and there is no dispute that the applicable three-year statute of limitations, 12 D.C.Code § 301(7) (1967), would normally have run in June of 1960. Appellant, however, had successfully resisted a pretrial motion for summary...

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