Newkirk v. Cone
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an action of assumpsit for professional services, in prosecuting, defending and soliciting divers causes; also, for examining records in public offices, abstracting title to lands, drawing, copying and engrossing conveyances, deeds and writings ; also, for journeys and attendance; also, for acquiring, by purchase, for and in the name of defendant, the title to divers pieces and parcels of land, of great value, to wit: of the value of two hundred and fifty thousand…
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This was an action of assumpsit for professional services, in prosecuting, defending and soliciting divers causes; also, for examining records in public offices, abstracting title to lands, drawing, copying and engrossing conveyances, deeds and writings ; also, for journeys and attendance; also, for acquiring, by purchase, for and in the name of defendant, the title to divers pieces and parcels of land, of great value, to wit: of the value of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; also, for work and labor generally. These all count “ on the quantum meruit,” and are followed hy common money…
1Opinion of the CourtSkinner, J.
This was an action of assumpsit. The plaintiff’s declaration is in inddbitafacs assumpsit for work, labor, journeys, moneys expended and professional services rendered for the defendant, as an attorney at law. The defendant pleaded the general issue and special pleas of set-off, and setting irp a special written contract, under which they allege the* services, and so forth, were performed. The defendant traversed the plea of set-off, and to the pleas setting up the written contract, replied, first, that the services were not performed under the written contract; and second, that the written…
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