Haish v. Payson
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. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding. This was a suit brought in the Superior Court of Cook county, to recover for legal services rendered.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. Elliott Anthony, Judge, presiding. This was a suit brought in the Superior Court of Cook county, to recover for legal services rendered. The nature of the case appears sufficiently from the following question, which was propounded to witnesses on the trial: Question—“This is a suit by George Payson, Esq., a member of the bar of this city, against Jacob Haish, of De Kalb, to recover fees for professional services. Haish had been sued some time about the end of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sheldon
The mode of presentation of this base to the jury was such as, in our opinion, to require a reversal of the judgment. The evidence which was permitted to be given, and the so-called hypothetical question which was allowed to be put and read over to witnesses, were calculated to draw away the minds of the jury from the true inquiry, what was the extent and value of the professional services rendered the defendant by the plaintiff, to the contemplation of the large sums of money which would result in the future from the saving of royalty, which in fourteen years would reach the enormous amount…
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