Clark v. Midwest Bakeries & MacAroni Manufacturing Co.

This is an action to enforce an attorney’s lien. At the conclusion of the evidence the court sustained defendants’ motion for a directed verdict, resulting in a verdict and judgment for the defendants. Plaintiff has appealed.

The facts show that on February 25, 1942, one Raymond Vaughn, an employee of the defendant, baking company, sometimes called the Roma Bakery, was seriously injured while at work in the bakery plant in Kansas City; that plaintiff is an attorney-at-law residing in that city; that shortly after Vaughn was injured the latter employed plaintiff to prosecute his claim against…