Tedrick v. Hiner
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Knox county; the Hon. Arthur A. Smith, Judge, presiding. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by John H. Hiner against George Tedrick and Thomas Dugan, for services by him performed for the defendants. In the circuit court judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff, to reverse which the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breese
The testimony in this case clearly shows that appellee represented himself to one of the appellants, Tedrick, as an attorney at law, and familiar with the prosecution and direction of actions of ejectment. He was introduced to Tedrick as an attorney; he had held himself out in Yates City, where he resided, as an attorney, and exhibited to persons there what he said was a license to practice law. It was in this character he approached Tedrick, and as such he was employed by Tedrick to manage an ejectment suit, which Tedrick had notice was instituted against him to recover possession of the…
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