King v. Handy

It appear^ in this case that on the 23d day of March, 1874, the appellees were carrying on the business of making abstracts of title to real estate situated in Cook county, from certain indexes to the records of Cook county, Illinois, then in their possession. It also appears that Simeon W. King, the appellant, was an attorney at law, practicing his profession in the city of Chicago, in said county, and that sometime about the 7th day of that month, Messrs. Augur and Robbins carne to his office, entire strangers to him, to get some professional business transacted by him. A business…