Noell v. Missouri Pacific Railroad

This is an action by plaintiff to collect the amount of his attorney's fee in the case of Anna L. Hobbs, administratrix of the estate of W.S. Hobbs, deceased, against the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. Plaintiff had judgment herein for $7,000, and defendant has appealed therefrom. Plaintiff's petition stated that he was employed by Anna L. Hobbs, the widow of defendant's deceased employee to file, in St. Louis, an action for wrongful death against defendant; that his client "agreed to pay plaintiff for services rendered or to be rendered by him in that behalf, 40 per cent of the amount…