Procter v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Miller

Affirming.

These appeals involve only tlie fees for services rendered by Dr. A. T. McCormack as a physician, and by B. F. Procter as an attorney, in the action of R. E. Lynch against the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company for personal injuries.

Having been injured in a collision upon appellee’s road at Rockland, Tennessee, Lynch and his brother-in-law, Niemeyer, made the following contract of employment with Procter:

“This obligation witnesseth, that I have employed B. P. Procter to adjust by suit or compromise a claim for myself and for E. B. Niemeyer for…