GILCHRIST MACHINERY CO., INC. v. ROSS

No. 56691.

493 So.2d 1288 (1986)

GILCHRIST MACHINERY COMPANY, INC. and United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company v. Frederick A. ROSS, Jr.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 3, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry H. Powell, Thomas, Price, Alston, Jones & Davis, A. Spencer Gilbert, III, Wise, Carter, Child & Caraway, Jackson, for appellant.

William Sebastian Moore, Stephen L. Beach, III, Beach, Luckett & Ross, Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and ANDERSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

When lawyer and client throw litigational prudence to the wind and go after the pot of gold and the pot won largely turns out to be plate, the matter of attorneys fees and legal expenses often produces unseemly acrimony. Here a Jackson attorney claims that for a year he did practically nothing other than pursue a federal antitrust and unfair trade practices action in federal court, while the client claims the lawyer...

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