Laveirge v. Davis

The appeal is from a judgment refusing to fix the fees of plaintiff’s attorneys and dismissing the action for want of jurisdiction.

After the liability of defendant for the damages caused by the fire which devasted Cloquet on October 12, 1918, had been established in court, the government authorized the defendant to settle with those who suffered loss through the same fire. Plaintiff accordingly filed a claim with defendant through Arnold & Arnold, attorneys employed by him to collect damages by suit or otherwise, for the destruction by the fire of the growing timben on a 40-acre tract to…