WEST & WEAVER P. C. v. DIVISION OF LABOR, ETC.

No. 77-1014.

581 P.2d 749 (1978)

WEST AND WEAVER P. C., Petitioner, v. The DIVISION OF LABOR, Colorado DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT, Industrial Commission of Colorado (Ex Officio Workmen's Compensation Insurance Fund of Colorado), and Arlyce Kay Olson, Respondents.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Division I.

July 6, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

West & Weaver, P. C., John W. Weaver, Denver, for petitioner.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., David W. Robbins, Deputy Atty. Gen., Edward G. Donovan, Sol. Gen., Louis L. Kelley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for respondents.


COYTE, Judge.

This controversy involves the amount of attorneys' fees allowed to petitioner in a workmen's compensation case. We set aside the order and remand for hearing.

Claimant retained petitioner attorneys to represent her in an industrial commission case which sought compensation for the death, from an automobile accident, of her husband. She signed a contingent fee contract with said attorneys which stated that although the attorneys' normal rate was...

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