Comerford v. Loewenbein

Mr. Presiding Justice Thomson

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff is a lawyer practicing his profession in the City of Chicago. He brought this action against the defendant to recover the sum of $1,500 which he claimed the defendant owed him as a balance due under an agreement, in which the defendant had agreed to pay $3,500 for the plaintiff’s services in getting into communication with the defendant’s brother, who was then a prisoner of war, interned in Siberia, and in arranging the latter’s release. By this action the plaintiff also sought to recover $250, under the same…