Crozier v. Freeman Coal Mining Co.

A decree entered by the superior court of Cook county on March 26, 1935, among other things, sustained two injunctions issued in January, 1933, restraining Maclay Hoyne from prosecuting his claim for the recovery of an attorney’s fee in two suits, one in the Supreme Court of New York initiated by Frank Crozier, who made Hoyne a defendant; and the other, a suit which he, Hoyne, filed in the United States District Court of New Jersey, allowed him $84,639.53 in full payment of his fee out of a fund held by the United States Steel Corporation and Gordon L. Edwards, its nominee, allowed the sum of…