Looker v. Buente

This case comes to this court upon a petition for certiorari to review a judgment of the Appellate Court affirming a judgment of the circuit court of Kankakee county-in favor of Llewellyn C. Looker, (herein called plaintiff,) against Henry Buente (herein called defendant).

Plaintiff in the action was a civil engineer and sued to recover for services rendered in a proceeding to organize a drainage district which was never organized but was finally abandoned. The first count alleges plaintiff was a civil engineer, which was known to defendant, who was the owner of 280 acres of land in the…