Hall v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Mr. Presiding Justice Burke

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff, a practicing attorney at the Chicago bar, sued in the municipal court of Chicago to enforce an attorney’s lien and on a trial before the court without a jury judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff for $100, to reverse which defendant prosecutes this appeal.

Grace Smith and Grundy Lewis had claims pending against defendant corporation. On February 8, 1937, Grace Smith, one of the claimants, retained plaintiff and signed a contract reading:

“This is to certify that I have this day employed Houston H. Hall as attorney to…