Stephens v. Davis

*221The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action to enforce a legal right arising from a contract of employment, secured by an attorney’s lien on 50 per cent of the amount recoverable, by Frank M. St. Clair from the director general of railroads on account of injuries sustained by him as a railway employee during the period of federal control of railroads, December 26, 1917, to March 1,1920.

So far as here pertinent the controlling facts were these: On October 17,1919, Frank M. St. Clair was employed as a fireman on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway. On that date he…