St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company v. Poe

This is an appeal from a judgment against appellants in favor of appellees for $1,500 for a reasonable attorney’s fee in a personal injury suit filed by them for one Ed Cornelius, and which action was settled by appellants and Cornelius without the knowledge or consent of appellees, for $1,000. The action by appellees was by way of intervention in the Cornelius suit.

Two questions are argued for a reversal of the judgment as follows: 1st, that act 326 of 1937, (§ 668, Pope’s Digest, and § 668 of Pope’s Digest Supp.),'for lack of an emergency clause, did not become effective until 90 days after…