Van Buren County Savings Bank v. Rockwell

In 1903, the Van Burén County Savings Bank, through Hollingsworth & Blood and Wherry & Walker, its attorneys, procured a judgment on default against E. H. Rockwell, and also a judgment against Mrs. E. II. Rockwell, in both of which judgments attorneys’ fees were taxed in favor of the plaintiffs’ attorneys. Nothing ivas done toward the collection of these judgments until *27early in July, 1909, when the plaintiff herein, S. E. Irish, was employed to collect them. He immediately instituted proceedings which finally compelled the defendant, E. H. Rockwell, to pay into court the sum of $180 for…