Miller v. Barnes

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming.

Appellee, Frank Barnes, while employed by the American Express Company was, on October 22, 1915, at Princeton, Kentucky, struck by a train of the Illinois Central Railroad Company and injured. He employed appellants, who are attorneys and partners, to prosecute his claim for damages, but before the contract of employment was reduced to writing he left Princeton and went to Illinois for a visit to his father, with the understanding that the contract would be .reduced to writing and mailed to him for his signature. The contract, as written by the…