PONDER v. SUCCESSION OF WALL

No. CA 84 1486.

486 So.2d 209 (1986)

L.B. PONDER, Jr. v. The SUCCESSION OF Clarence Wesley WALL.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

March 25, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Lynn Ponder, Amite, William LePore, Hammond, for plaintiff-appellant, L.B. Ponder, Jr.

J. Donald Cascio, Denham Springs, for Charles Milton Wall, Jr., defendant/appellee.

Robert Tillery, Ponchatoula, for Charles Wall, Defendant/appellee.

Alton B. Lewis, Jr., Hammond, for defendant-appellee, Fay Wall Shaw.

Jerry L. Finley, Denham Springs, for Reba Wall Howard, defendant-appellee.

Before LOTTINGER, COLE and CRAIN, JJ.


LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is an action by L.B. Ponder, Jr., attorney at law, seeking legal fees for services rendered to Clarence Wesley Wall. Mr. Ponder intervened in the succession of Mr. Wall to have himself listed on the tableau of distribution for the attorney's fees due him.

Ponder contends he had a contingent fee contract with the deceased which read as follows:

I employ Ponder & Ponder to defend my case and to sell my property at $600. per...

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