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- Title: Bond V. Wiegardt
- Author : Department Two Supreme Court of Washington
- Release Date : January 28, 1950
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 61 KB
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John L. Wiegardt and Fred W. Wiegardt, discovering that, through inadvertence, they had planted oysters on a state oyster reserve, desired to claim these oysters as their personal property. To assist them in prosecuting their claim, they retained, as attorneys, Fred M. Bond and the late W. H. Abel. Discussions were had concerning the amount of attorneys' fees, and, on or about August 20, 1945, Mr. Bond prepared a draft of a proposed contract of employment and sent four copies thereof to the Wiegardts. Upon receipt of the papers, the Wiegardts, without affixing their signatures to any of the copies, returned them to Mr. Bond, with a letter stating that the description of the oyster land, contained in the proposed agreement, did not include all of the area involved, and that, upon receipt of the revised agreement, it would be properly executed by them. Mr. Bond inserted the omitted description, by interlineation, with a typewriter, and returned the papers, none of which had yet been signed by any of the parties, to the Wiegardts. As revised, the agreement read, in part, as follows: