Chicago, St. Charles & Mississippi Railroad v. Larned
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a declaration in assumpsit, in the usual form, charging defendant for services rendered in the Supreme Court, as an attorney, etc. Plea of general issue in the usual form. Jury trial; verdict of jury in favor of plaintiff for $1,000. Defendant’s motion for new trial overruled. Judgment for Earned in the court below. Appeal granted. James H. Rees, called by plaintiff, testified: Resides in Cook county.
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This was a declaration in assumpsit, in the usual form, charging defendant for services rendered in the Supreme Court, as an attorney, etc. Plea of general issue in the usual form. Jury trial; verdict of jury in favor of plaintiff for $1,000. Defendant’s motion for new trial overruled. Judgment for Earned in the court below. Appeal granted. James H. Rees, called by plaintiff, testified: Resides in Cook county. Was one of the parties plaintiff in a suit in the Court of Common Pleas, in Cook county, against Bennett and others. Suit commenced ill 1855 or 1856. The Chicago, St. Charles and…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, C. J.
After the most careful examination of the testimony in this cause, we are forced to the conclusion that the plaintiff did not make out an employment or retainer by the defendant to conduct the cause on its behalf in the Supreme Court. There is not the least particle of evidence that any communication ever passed between the parties on the subject, nor is there any that the defendant had any intimation or supposition that the plaintiff proposed or professed to represent it, in that cause in the Supreme Court. Mr. Rees employed the plaintiff to attend to that cause on his behalf, and hejS…
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