Jewel v. Neidy
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Buchanan District Court. The plaintiff is an attorney-at-law, and brings this action in equity against the defendant, Nancy Neidy, to recover for professional services, and to enforce an attorney’s lien. The defendant denies any employment of the plaintiff. As an independent defense, she avers that the contract under which he was employed was champertous. The court found for the defendant, and dismissed the plaintiff’s petition. He appeals. -
1Opinion of the CourtAdams, J.
— The case in some respects is a peculiar one. Tiie defendant, Neidy, and one Diehl, were eacli the owner of one-fourth of the estate of one Wilson, deceased. Diehl had conceived the idea that the administrator, one Miller, had not properly accounted. He accordingly employed the plaintiff, Jewel, as an attorney to contest the settlement of the administrator’s account. It appears that the account had jireviously been referred to a referee who had reported thereon, but the report was not satisfactory to Diehl, and he had filed *300exceptions. The expectation was that, if the administrator could be…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- McDonald v. Chicago & Northwestern RailroadSupreme Court of Iowa · 1870
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