Senneff v. Healy
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Webster District Court. — Hon. R. M. Wright, Judge. This is a controversy over the distribution of attorney’s fees growing out of a contract for a part of the recovery in the case of Wells v. W. U. Tel. Co., which case finally reached this court, and was disposed of by an opinion reported in 144 Iowa, 605. The trial court made a division according to the terms of the contracts entered into between the attorneys, and plaintiffs appeal. —
1Opinion of the CourtDeemer, J.
Plaintiffs are attorneys at law, and at the time this controversy arose Senneff lived at Britt, and Kelleher at Et. Dodge. Thos. D. Iiealy, now deceased, was also a lawyer living at Et. Dodge. Plaintiff Senneff was employed by one Wells to prosecute a suit against the Western Union Telegraph Company under an arrangement substantially as follows: “The said plaintiff John A. Senneff undertook the prosecution of a suit to be brought for said A. Judson Wells against the Western Union Telegraph Company and B. G. Lyman, and undertook and agreed to prosecute the said suit to a final 'determination,…
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