Jeger v. Julius Kessler & Co.

In an action for attorneys’ fees for services rendered defendant by plaintiffs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, involving the collection of notes aggregating $145.47, in which plaintiffs procured a settlement for $60, there was a verdict and judgment for $875.

The naked statement of these few facts shocks the moral sense. It is such conduct upon the part of unethical lawyers which tends to bring the profession of the law into disrepute with good people.

Plaintiffs, in a manner realizing that they were attempting an extortion, sought to excuse it on the ground that vital principles were involved in the…