Schneider v. Lobingier

Duffie, C.

Barbara Schneider, the plaintiff and appellee, claimed an interest in three lots in the city of Omaha, Nebraska, and a quarter section of land in Washington county, Nebraska, as one of the heirs of Mary Thomas, deceased. Some time about the year 1900 she employed H. E. Carter, an attorney at law residing in Tekamah, Burt county, to obtain partition of said real estate. The terms of Carter’s employment are not clearly shown, but the plaintiff testified that she offered him 10 per cent, of the amount realized from her share of the property. One of her sons testified that Carter…