Nichols v. Waters
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Kent; Perkins, J. Assumpsit by George E. Nichols, Arthur F. Shaw and Edward P. Whitney, copartners as Nichols, Shaw & Whitney, against Dudley E. Waters and Paul H. King, receivers of the Pere Marquette Railroad Company, and others for attorneys’ fees. Judgment for defendants on a directed verdict. Plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtSteere, J.
Plaintiffs constitute a law firm engaged in practice of their profession in the city of Grand Rapids. Defendants Waters and King were at the time of these proceedings receivers of the Pere Marquette Railroad Company. Defendant Kuiper was its claim attorney and Sandy his assistant.
On December 1, 1913, Thomas A. Holmes, a young, man 26 years of age and unmarried, sustained fatal *29injuries in a head-on collision on said railroad at a curve between Lowell and Elmdale in this State resulting from a mistake in running orders. He was employed as a brakeman, and then serving as one of the crew of an…
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