Bardonski v. Bardonski

This is one of the extreme cases in which courts, in the endeavor to do justice, are tempted to overlook established rules and make bad law. Seward v. Cease, 50 Ill. 228. The case made by the appellant, of which there is no contradiction, is that in 1882, the appellee named in the above title received from the C. & N. W. Ry. $3,500, in two checks, one of which, for $1,125, he indorsed to one Dannecker, his attorney in the business. In 1885 he sued Dannecker and the appellant for the same money. Danneclter employed an attorney to defend both of them, without cost to the appellant. When the…