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M.Bodcena etal vs Intermediate Appellate Court etal

MODESTA BORCENA, ANTONIO GIMENO, JR., ESTELA GIMENO, ROLANDO GIMENO, EDGARDO GIMENO and ANELIA GIMENO, petitioners, vs. INTERMEDIATE APPELLATE COURT, HON. CLEMENTE D. PAREDES, ROMULO C. BASA, LEOVINO LEGASPI and HON. ZOTICO A. TOLETE, respondents.

G.R. No. 70099 | 1987-01-07

D E C I S I O N


GUTIERREZ, JR., J.:

The petitioners question the amount which the respondent Court of Appeals and the trial court ordered to be paid to their former lawyer, as his compensation.

On July 6, 1981, the petitioners engaged the legal services of respondent Gil P. de Guzman under the following terms and conditions:

"Dear Atty. de Guzman:

"For purposes of handling our case against Nam Kwang, Socea Bonna, Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System, and other persons who are parties to the total or partial destruction of some of our road and residential lots at the Memorial Park Subdivision, Bigti, Norzagaray, Bulacan, we...