Maloney v. Missouri Pac. R.

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

Elza V. Anderson and others employed the appellants, attorneys at law, to prosecute certain suits for damages for false arrest and imprisonment and malicious prosecution, and for assault and unlawful search and seizure, against the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, and before any judgment was had in the suits the railroad company made settlement of all the claims for the sum of $1,700, without notice to the attorneys. The attorneys received nothing from their clients and filed claims in the bankruptcy court where the railroad is in process of reorganization. They had…