Legal Opinion
Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Co. v. Carlock & Gillespie
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided July 3, 1903PublishedCited by 11 opinions
Appeal from the County Court of Tarrant. Tried below before Hon. R. T. Milam.
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHENS, Associate Justice.
E. J. Wjrnn, who had sustained personal injuries through the negligence of appellant, employed appellees, a firm of lawyers, to collect his claim for damages, the contract of employment reading:
“Ft. Worth, Texas, Feb. 8, 1902.—This agreement between E. J. Wynn and Carlock & Gillespie witnesseth, that the said Wynn has this day employed said Carlock & Gillespie to collect, by suit .or otherwise, a claim against the Fort Worth & Denver City Railway Company for personal injuries to said Wynn, sustained on the 16th day of January, 1902, at Sanborn, Texas, said injury…
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- Singer Mfg. Co v. DraperTennessee Supreme Court · 1899
- Stedwell v. HartmannAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
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