PHARIS & PHARIS v. RAYNER

No. 67540.

397 So.2d 1295 (1981)

PHARIS & PHARIS v. Mary Elizabeth V. RAYNER.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied May 18, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Pharis, Jr., F. Jean Pharis of Pharis & Pharis, Alexandria, for plaintiff-applicant.

Vincent Hazleton, Alexandria, for defendant-respondent.


DENNIS, Justice.

This case involves a dispute over an attorney's fee. The plaintiff law firm seeks to recover under a contingent fee contract for services rendered in protecting defendant's interest in the community formerly existing between her deceased husband and herself. The trial and appellate courts rejected the law firm's demands entirely finding that the contingent fee contract was void for lack of consent due to error of fact. After reviewing the record and...

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