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BOOKER v. MIDPAC LUMBER CO., LTD.

No. 7534.

636 P.2d 1359 (1981)

R. G. BOOKER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MIDPAC LUMBER CO., LTD., Cesario R. Constantino, Stewart Lai and John Does 1-10, Defendants-Appellees, and D. N. Ingman, Formerly Attorney for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawaii.

Certiorari Granted December 16, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

D.N. Ingman, Honolulu, pro se, formerly attorney for plaintiff-appellant.

Christopher P. McKenzie, McKenzie, Trecker & Fritz, Honolulu (Benjamin L. Carroll, III, Kailua, with him on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before HAYASHI, C.J., and PADGETT and BURNS, JJ.

BURNS, Judge.

Booker hired Ingman as his attorney under a contingent fee contract to pursue a tort claim. Eight months after the accident and before the case came to trial, Booker, without legal cause, terminated Ingman's services and hired other attorneys to represent him.

Ingman appeals because he was willing to accept a $15,000.00 attorney's fee and the lower court awarded him only $1,500.00.

We decide that the lower court manifestly abused its...

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