Case ID: ill-app_191/html/0062-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Benjamin Wolf, Plaintiff in Error, v. Elizabeth Gloor, Defendant in Error.
    Gen. No. 20,050.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Error to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Joseph Sabath, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1914.
    Affirmed.
    Opinion filed December 31, 1914.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by Benjamin Wolf against Elizabeth G-loor to recover a balance alleged to be due for legal services rendered and expenses incurred in securing the appointment of defendant as guardian of her grandchild, Catherine Gloor. A trial was had before the court and a jury, resulting in a verdict in favor of defendant. To reverse a judgment entered tin the verdict, plaintiff prosecutes a writ of error..
    George A. McCorkle and Benjamin Wolf, for plaintiff in error.
    Anderson, Anderson & Anderson, for defendant in error.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    Attorney and client, § 135
      
      —when evidence sufficient to sustain verdict. In an action by an attorney for a balance due for legal services and expenses incurred in securing the appointment of defendant as guardian of her grandchild, where evidence was introduced as- to the value of the services and there was evidence to show that defendant had paid plaintiff five hundred dollars, held that a verdict for defendant was sustained by the evidence.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vola. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Pam

delivered the opinion of the court.