Klein

The purpose of this suit was to obtain a decree adjudging plaintiff to be the owner of an undivided one-fourth interest in a tract of land in Kern County, of which interest he claimed to be the owner under the terms of a written contract entered into between him and the defendant Carl J. Lange, as attorney and client respectively; also to reform the description of the land set’ forth in said contract. A decree was granted as prayed and defendants appeal.

The contract is dated May 8, 1919, and recites that Lange, claiming to be the owner of the land in question, the record title to which stood in the name of his co-defendant Anna A. Lange, instituted suit against the latter to establish his title thereto, but “had no means to proceed with said action,” and that therefore, in consideration of the past services rendered by respondent as Lange’s attorney in connection with the institution of such suit, it was agreed as follows: “That the party of the first part (respondent) shall receive as and for his compensation for services already rendered and to be rendered including the trial of said action, if the same shall go or proceed to trial, twenty-five per cent of whatever the said…