Mecartney v. Wallace
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Hugo Pam, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1918.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Barnes
Appellant seeks reversal of a judgment of $25,000 against him for services rendered by appellee as attorney in certain litigation of Florence' L. Brandt against the estate of William Ziegler, deceased.
The declaration contains the common counts and counts in indebitatus assumpsit. The affidavit of claim sets forth that the legal services were in certain litigation for Florence L. Brandt against the said estate, for which defendant agreed to pay plaintiff $50,000 “for and when said defendant should realize upon or receive his compensation for his own legal services performed in said…
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