Vilas v. Bundy
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Eau Claire county: W. E. Bailey, Circuit Judge. Action of trover to recover damages upon the following facts: On June 23,1838, Luther Cain obtained a judgment against the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company for $4,205.28 ■damages and costs, on a cause of action for a negligent personal injury.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Eau Claire county: W. E. Bailey, Circuit Judge. Action of trover to recover damages upon the following facts: On June 23,1838, Luther Cain obtained a judgment against the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company for $4,205.28 ■damages and costs, on a cause of action for a negligent personal injury. Levi M. Yilas, his attorney, performed the necessary services as such, under a contract entitling him to one half the amount finally recovered. Before anything subsequent to the entry of judgment was done, except the issuance of an execution thereon…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinion was filed January 9, 1900:
Maeshall, J.
The assignments of error found in the brief of appellants’ counsel, made in conformity with the rule on that subject, do not correspond accurately with the divisions made by counsel in the argument that follows. In this opinion we will endeavor to follow closely such argument, instead of the assignments of error, thereby taking up in detail the reasons put forward to support the appeal.
It is first said that no engagement of either defendant as •attorney for plaintiffs was proven; that the correspondence between Fleming and William E.…
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