State Ex Rel. Robinson v. Trimble

GANTT, P. J. —

This came to me on reassignment. Certiorari to quash an opinion of the Kansas City Court of Appeals in Rhoades v. Robinson, Administrator of the Estate of Elijah Robinson, Deceased, (No. 16, 657). The facts follow:

Claude M. Kackley, an attorney, had office privileges in the law offices of Judge Elijah Robinson in Kansas City, Missouri. The judge prosecuted many of the cases brought to the office by Kackley. In 1915 Kackley was employed by Jesse C. Rhoades, on a contingent fee of fifty per cent of the amount recovered, to prosecute a suit for damages against the Chicago-Great…