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SCRUGGS, MILLETTE, BOZEMAN & DENT, P.A. v. MERKEL & COCKE

No. 1999-CA-00406-SCT.

763 So.2d 869 (2000)

SCRUGGS, MILLETTE, BOZEMAN & DENT, P.A. f/k/a Scruggs, Millette, Lawson, Bozeman & Dent, P.A., Richard F. Scruggs, Richard F. Scruggs, P.A. and Asbestos Group, P.A. v. MERKEL & COCKE, P.A., William Roberts Wilson, Jr., and William Roberts Wilson, Jr., P.A.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

July 20, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffery P. Reynolds, Jim Warren, III, James L. Carroll, Jackson, Charles E. Webster, H. Hunter Twiford, III, Daniel M. Weir, Clarksdale, Attorneys for Appellants.

Michael S. Allred, Jackson, Charles M. Merkel, Jr., Clarksdale, Attorneys for Appellees.

BEFORE BANKS, P.J., MILLS AND WALLER, JJ.

MILLS, Justice, for the Court:

¶ 1. In September of 1997, Scruggs, Millette, Bozeman & Dent, P.A. ("SMBD") filed a lawsuit in the Jackson County Chancery Court against Merkel & Cocke, P.A. ("Merkel"), Charles Merkel, Cynthia Mitchell, William Roberts Wilson, Jr., P.A., and Asbestos Group, P.A. This lawsuit placed at issue the alleged mishandling of attorneys' fees received by Merkel in 1994. These fees were derived from the Scott case, a wrongful...

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