Gillie v. Bingham
Appellate Court of Illinois
Assumpsit, for attorney fees. Trial in the Circuit Court of Fayette County; the Hon. Samuel L. Dwight, Judge, presiding. Finding and judgment for plaintiff; appeal by defendants. Heard in this court at the February term, 1899.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bigelow
Two propositions of law were submitted to the trial court to be held as the law of the case: First, that appellee was not agent of appellant in performing the legal services rendered; second, that the action would not lie for want of privity of contract.
The court declined to hold the propositions to be the law of the case, and this action of the court is assigned as error.
But it appears to us that neither of said propositions were purely propositions of law; they were rather in the nature of requests to find specially the non-existence of certain ultimate facts of the case. Alexander v.…
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