Foy v. India Rubber Tire Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. John J. Sullivan, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1917.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes
delivered the opinion of the court.
Appellant Stephens filed an intervening petition in this cause to enforce a lien for his agreed fee under the Attorney’s Lien Act (Hurd’s Rev. St. ch. 82, par. 55, J. & A. If 611).
The undisputed facts stated chronologically are as follows:
Plaintiff Foy hired Stephens, appellant, as attorney to prosecute this cause and agreed to pay him “forty per cent (40%) of all money received or recovered,” either by suit or settlement without suit. Thereupon appellant served the defendant company, appellee herein, with the notice required by…
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- Standidge v. Chicago Railways Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1912
- Matter of SnyderNew York Court of Appeals · 1907
- Andrewes v. . HaasNew York Court of Appeals · 1915
- Curtis v. Metropolitan Street Railway Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1906
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