Willard v. Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit. Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Stephen A. Foster, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at' the October term, 1909.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Smith
delivered the opinion of the court.
George Willard, deceased, brought assumpsit against the defendant in error in the Municipal Court of Chicago and declared upon a quantum meruit for certain services rendered by him as an attorney at law in the preparation for trial and the trial of a certain lawsuit which the defendant in error brought in 1895 against the city of Chicago to recover three-quarters of the value of a large amount of property which had been destroyed in the riots of 1894 in the city of Chicago. In December, 1904, the suit, on motion of the de; fendant…
2Cited by1 opinion
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