EX PARTE HUMPHREY, LUTZ & SMITH

Nos. 78-554, 78-555.

380 So.2d 845 (1980)

Ex parte HUMPHREY, LUTZ & SMITH, a partnership. In re Emma Jean Shepard SOKOLL v. HUMPHREY, LUTZ & SMITH, a partnership, (two cases.) Ex parte Emma Jean Shepard SOKOLL.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

January 11, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Schuyler H. Richardson, III, of Bell, Richardson & Herrington, Huntsville, for petitioner Humphrey, Lutz & Smith, a partnership.

J. Tilden Dillard and Sherman B. Powell, Jr., Decatur, for petitioner Emma Jean Shepard Sokoll.

Lanny S. Vines, Birmingham, amicus curiae.


MADDOX, Justice.

These cases arise out of a client's dispute with her attorney over the proper distribution of a workmen's compensation award. Both parties, being dissatisfied with certain portions of the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals, petitioned this Court for a writ of certiorari. We granted both petitions and consolidated the cases. The two petitions present two issues:

(1) Does Code 1975, § 25-5-90 prohibit reimbursement of necessary and reasonable...

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