Mercer v. Chicago City Railway Co.

In February, 1910, plaintiff in error, as administrator, recovered a judgment against the Chicago City Railway Company in the Superior Court for $1,000' for damages for wrongfully causing the death of plaintiff’s intestate. After the judgment was entered the suit was settled and the Railway Company paid the plaintiff $600. Defendant in error, who was the plaintiff’s attorney in that case, then filed his petition in the same case, alleging that without any agreement as to fees “except what the court should allow,” he brought the suit at the request of the plaintiff in 1907; that the case was…