Hall

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment against him in an action in which he, as assignee of the rights of R. A. Dunnigan, sought to collect nine hundred dollars attorney’s fees under a written contract for professional services made between said R. A. Dunnigan and defendant.

The trial court found that a written contract had been entered into between defendant and R. A. Dunnigan, under which contract the said Dunnigan was to render professional services as an attorney at law in the prosecution of two suits in which the defendant herein was the plaintiff. The only question involved in this appeal is as to the validity of certain provisions contained in said contract. The contract recites the employment of the attorney to file suit against Sam Orloff, Diana Orloff, and the Taft Junk Company, for an accounting of a partnership existing between said parties and the defendant herein, and also to prosecute another suit for damages against the said Sam Orloff for assault and battery upon the person of the defendant herein. It also provides that the defendant herein was to advance all costs of suit, and was to pay to the attorney fifty per cent of all moneys received in said…