Schmidt v. Shaver
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;—heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Philip Stein, Judge, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cartwright
On December 11, 1894, appellant, Ida E. Schmidt, who was then a minor, suing by James W. Hurdle, her next friend, recovered a judgment against the city of Chicago, one of the appellees, for $5000 damages for a personal injury. The suit was prosecuted by the People’s Casualty Claim Adjustment Company, a corporation, under a contract with the parents of appellant by which the corporation was to receive for its services one-fourth of the amount collected in case of settlement and one-third in case of suit. Charles W. Beck was president and manager of the corporation, and shortly before the…
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