Hunter v. Troup

Mr. Presiding Justice Jones

delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellant, W. R. Hunter, a practicing attorney of Kankakee county, Illinois, instituted this suit in assumpsit against the appellees, H. H. Troup and Walter C. Schneider, in their individual capacities, to recover the sum of $2,000 which he claimed to be due him from them as attorney’s fees for service rendered them as executors of the estate of Madeline E. Huling, deceased. With the declaration there was filed an affidavit showing the nature of appellant’s demand as provided for by section 55 of the Practice Act [Cahill’s Ill. St.…