Schlake v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co.

Plaintiffs seek to recover fees under the Illinois Attorney’s Lien Act. After a trial, judgment was entered for defendants. Plaintiffs appeal.

Sophie Fischer was injured September 23, 1952, while an employee of Corn Products Refining Company. She retained George E. Sankstone and George Yellen as her attorneys. In the course of representing her, Attorney Yellen engaged the New York law firm of Schlossberg and Siegal. Miss Fischer was dissatisfied with this New York firm and on Sankstone’s recommendation the New York firm of Young, Balbach, Tilford and Lewis, which will hereafter lie referred to…