Elkins v. McCaskill
Appellate Court of Illinois
Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Abnold Heat, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1911.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fitch
By this writ of error, plaintiff seeks to reverse a judgment for defendants, entered upon a directed verdict. Defendants are lawyers and were employed as such hy one Schillinger and others to represent them in a suit brought against them by Elkins. The latter recovered a judgment and defendants, on behalf of their clients, sued out a writ of error in the Appellate Court. Through some mistake or misunderstanding, the MeCasldlls neglected to file their briefs and abstracts in apt time. Steele and Thompson, attorneys for Elkins, served notice that-they would ask the court to dismiss the writ of…
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