Moore v. New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad

By this appeal the defendant Railroad Company seeks to reverse a judgment for $2,541.67, recovered against it in the superior court of Cook county by C. P. Holthrop on an intervening petition filed by the latter, wherein he claimed the amount recovered, pursuant to the provisions of an agreement between him and the plaintiff, Moore, in which the latter retained Holthrop to represent him as his attorney, in a claim for damages against the Railroad Company, agreeing to pay said Molthrop one-third of any amount that might be recovered on said claim, either as a result of a suit or compromise.

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