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HENRY R. LILES v. BOURGEOIS

No. 86-936.

517 So.2d 1078 (1987)

HENRY R. LILES A Professional Law Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dorothy Sells BOURGEOIS, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

October 7, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice Tynes, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-appellant.

Phillip W. St. Romain, Lake Charles, for defendant-appellee.

Before GUIDRY and YELVERTON, JJ., and CULPEPPER, J. Pro Tem.

WILLIAM A. CULPEPPER, Judge. Pro Tem. The issue presented by this appeal is the validity of a contingency fee contract between an attorney and his client wherein the fee contemplated was to be based upon a percentage of the client's future inheritance from her mother.

Henry R. Liles, a Professional Law Corporation, filed suit on December 13, 1985 to recover a legal fee from the defendant, Dorothy Sells Bourgeois, as a result of plaintiff's representation of defendant...

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