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ESTATE OF BURFORD v. FREEMAN

No. 2017-CA-01775-COA.

281 So.3d 942 (2019)

In the Matter of the ESTATE OF Lee House BURFORD, Deceased: Ginger Richards and Kimberly Archer, as Co-Managers of the Blackburn Firm LLC, Appellants v. Walter Wendell FREEMAN, Executor, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

April 16, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANTS: HARRIS H. BARNES III , JAMES WILLIAMS JANOUSH , FLOWOOD, S. GRAY EDMONSON .

ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE: JOHN THOMAS LAMAR III , SENATOBIA, TAYLOR ALLISON HECK .

BEFORE J. WILSON, P.J., GREENLEE AND McCARTY, JJ.

¶1. This case concerns an employment contract between an attorney and his client. We must decide whether the chancery court erred by cancelling the contract due to the attorney's death and ordering compensation for the attorney's firm on a quantum meruit basis. Finding no error, we affirm.

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