GONZALEZ Y BARREDO v. SCHENCK

No. 321, Docket 33496.

428 F.2d 971 (1970)

Santiago Herminio GONZALEZ Y BARREDO, Appellant, v. Edelmira Folla SCHENCK, individually, and as Executrix of the Last Will and Testament of Maria Cintas Folla, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 24, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harris L. Present, New York City (Arthur J. Galligan, Warren Belmar, and Dickstein, Shapiro & Galligan, New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

John Van Voorhis, New York City (Pollack & Singer, New York City, of counsel), for appellee.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, ANDERSON, Circuit Judge, and DOOLING, District Judge.


DOOLING, District Judge:

Plaintiff, a practicing lawyer in Havana, Cuba, now resident in the United States, sued on a contingent fee retainer agreement for twenty percent of a settlement in the amount of $1,100,000 and interest which the defendant executrix had received in 1962 for a release of all of the claims of her testatrix to share in the intestate property of her deceased brother Oscar Cintas, a national and resident of Cuba who died in Cuba on May 11, 1957...

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