Knickerbocker Life Insurance v. Seeleman

This was assumpsit, in the Superior Court of Cook county, by Samuel Seeleman, plaintiff, and against the Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company, defendant, on an. instrument in writing, of the following tenor:

“ $300 Chicago, February 10, 1873.

“We hereby agree to pay Samuel Seeleman $300, as an attorney fee, in the event of his effecting a settlement of claims under two policies for $6000, in favor of Margaretta Friedel, on the life of her late husband, providing that terms are such that the Knickerbocker Life Insurance Co. accept of them, and adjust the losses in accordance with said terms;…