Case ID: ill-app_211/html/0507-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Abraham Lepine, Appellee, v. Chicago Waste Company, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 24,244.
    (Not to he reported in full.)
    Abstract of the Decision.
    Attorney and client, § 135
      
       — what evidence is improperly excluded in action for services. In an action by an attorney for legal services in obtaining information relative to alleged thefts from defendant and in aiding to prosecute certain persons, where there was evidence that a certain person was a client of plaintiff, evidence was improperly excluded which tended to show that plaintiff’s interest in the case was for the purpose of protecting such person in a controversy with another who, it was intimated, received certain property which it was charged was stolen from defendant
    
      Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Joseph P. Rafferty, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the March term, 1918.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Opinion filed July 1, 1918.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Abraham Lepine, plaintiff, against Chicago Waste Company, defendant, for legal services. - From a judgment for plaintiff for $200, defendant appeals.
    Richard J. Cooney and John A. Verhoeven, for appellant.
    Abraham: Lepine, pro se.
    
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, Sam' topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Presiding Justice Dever

delivered the opinion of the court.