Gibson v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from O’Brien District Court, — Hon. Geo. W. Waeeeield, Judge. Action to compel defendant to pay a sum of money alleged t© be due from intervener to plaintiffs for services as attorneys, as to which plaintiffs claim to have bad a lien on money due intervener from defendant at the-time the services were rendered, which money has since been paid by defendant to intervener without satisfying the plaintiff’s lien. Verdict and judgment for plaintiffs. Defendant appeals.—
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
The.evidence tended to show'that Mrs. Bushgens, the intervener,- received severe injuries about May *56610, 3898, while a passenger on defendant’s train, and was carried to a hotel, where, among strangers, and while suffering great pain, she was visited by G. A. Gibson, an attorney, and one of the plaintiffs, and where, as he testifies, a written contract, drawn up by him, was signed by her, authorizing him as attorney to prosecute for her an action against the defendant to recover damages for the injuries she had sustained, and providing that as compensation for his services he should have…
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