Eggert v. Interstate Investment & Development Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Floyd District Court. — IIon. J. E. Clyde, Judge. Action on an account for attorney’s fees. The defendant denied that the service for which plaintiffs’ charges were made were rendered to or in behalf of defendant, and by way of counterclaim alleged that moneys received by plaintiffs and credited on their said account to defendant were unlawfully paid to plaintiffs and received by them, and asked judgment against plaintiffs therefor.
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Appeal from Floyd District Court. — IIon. J. E. Clyde, Judge. Action on an account for attorney’s fees. The defendant denied that the service for which plaintiffs’ charges were made were rendered to or in behalf of defendant, and by way of counterclaim alleged that moneys received by plaintiffs and credited on their said account to defendant were unlawfully paid to plaintiffs and received by them, and asked judgment against plaintiffs therefor. At the conclusion of the evidence, defendant moved for a directed verdict as to plaintiffs’ claim. On the overruling of this motion, the court…
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
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The defendant, a corporation organized under the laws of Iowa, being the owner of certain real estate on which there are located as claimed by it lithographic and cement stone quarries, certain directors thereof purporting to represent the defendant company entered into some negotiations with a corporation organized in the state of New York referred to in the record as the Radio Company for the transfer of the properties of the defendant to the said Radio Company in exchange for stock in the latter company. Subsequently other stockholders of the defendant company brought an action in the…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Boyce v. Wabash Railway Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1884
- Parker v. Des Moines Life Ass'nSupreme Court of Iowa · 1899
- Quinn v. Capital InsuranceSupreme Court of Iowa · 1891
- Jenks v. Smith, Lichty & Hilman Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1905
- Young v. RannSupreme Court of Iowa · 1900
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- Fairmont Creamery Co. v. DargerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1916
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