DOUCET v. STANDARD SUPPLY & HARDWARE COMPANY

No. 3540.

250 So.2d 549 (1971)

Adolph Vernon DOUCET, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. STANDARD SUPPLY & HARDWARE COMPANY et al. Russell T. Tritice, Intervenor-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

July 13, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cormie & Morgan, by Robert E. Morgan, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-appellant.

Plauché, Sanders, Smith & Hebert, by A. Lane Plauché, Lake Charles, for defendants-appellees.

McHale & Bufkin, by Louis D. Bufkin, Lake Charles, for intervenor-appellee; Russell T. Tritico, in pro. per.

Before FRUGÉ, MILLER and DOMENGEAUX, JJ.


MILLER, Judge.

Plaintiff appellant Adolph Doucet appealed the trial court's judgment awarding the contracted percentage as attorney's fees to attorney Russell T. Tritico whose employment was terminated by plaintiff after a settlement offer had been accepted. We amend and affirm.

Plaintiff was injured on March 23, 1970. On March 28, 1970 he employed Tritico "to commence and prosecute" the claim and assigned him "a lien of 30% of all amounts recovered by compromise...

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