Butterman v. Chamales

This appeal concerns the dismissal of a claim filed by-Emmy S. Butterman against the estate of a deceased attorney, Peter J. Chamales, and against the decedent’s surviving partner in the practice of law. Claimant alleged that in May of 1962 she employed the decedent, paying him a retainer fee of $500, to pursue in her behalf litigation then pending in the Circuit Court of Cook County against a stock brokerage firm. In her original claim she charged that, "through want of care and good faith, and/or wilful neglect,” decedent did not answer the trial call for the case, resulting in its…