Rubekeil v. Bowman
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Walter Schinz, Circuit Judge. In May, 1918, the plaintiff, Paul Rubekeil, an employee of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, was severely injured at Butler, Wisconsin, by having botl\ legs crushed off by a freight train of said railroad.
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Appeals from an order of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Walter Schinz, Circuit Judge. In May, 1918, the plaintiff, Paul Rubekeil, an employee of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company, was severely injured at Butler, Wisconsin, by having botl\ legs crushed off by a freight train of said railroad. Raymond J. Cannon was retained by Rubekeil to prosecute a claim for damages against the railroad under a written contract, as first agreed and drawn providing for a thirty-three and one-third per cent, contingent fee out of any money recovered. This was changed to twenty-five per cent,…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The allowance made by the trial court of $400 as compensation to the appellants Bowman and Walmsley for their services in this case can be and is upheld, for the reason that their substitution as attorneys was made upon the express condition that the right was reserved by the court to ultimately pass upon the question of what allowances should be made out of any fund subsequently to be paid on account of plaintiff’s injuries. The statements by Messrs. Bowman and Walmsley on that hearing were in recognition of the right to make such a reservation and they accepted the substitution based upon…
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