Court of Appeals of Texas August 16, 1990, No. 10-89-108-CV (Malouf v. Mulaula)

OPINION

THOMAS, Chief Justice.

In September 1986 January Mulaula and his wife, as next friends for their minor son, Stephen, filed a medical malpractice *269suit in a Dallas district court. They did so after entering into a fifty-percent contingent-fee contract with the attorney who filed the suit.