Omaha daily bee., 1891-01-20
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Attorneys shoa and Flickinger Enjoying a
Personal Fight in the Courts
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war has been begun between j. j. Shea
and E'lickinger Brothers which promises
some interesting events in the near future
Two suits were begun yesterday one in
the district court and the other In the SUI
peror court, in both of which the name of
Gergen Lew appeared as plaintiff In the
snit in the superior court the law firm of
Flickinger Brothers was the defendant, and
j. j. Shea was Lewis attorney The plaintiff
claimed that in 1855 "A Judgment was obtained
by him in the circuit court of Mills county
against II. Fl. and Mary Martin for S221.41.
This money. 1t was alleged, was paid to
tNckinger Brothers, and never left their
hands. Judgment Is asked against the attor-
neys named for $3.50 and the costs OF action.
The case in the district court tells a very
different story. ID. Shea, Joseph Flynn,
o. Paud and James Wickham arc made de-
PENDANTS and E'lickinger Brothers this time
are attorneys for Lew, the man who is
charging them with dishonesty in the other
action. The plaintiff. Lew says, as before,
that he obtained judgment against III. IL.
and Mary Martin for Sl211l, In Mills county
and that it was transcribed to the district
court Of this county and paid into the hands
of j. j. Shea, who was at that time clerk of
that court. He claims that Shea never paid
the money to him, and wants judgment for
$3.50 against him and the other defendants
who were Sheas Oondsmen when he was
clerk oil tnc ulStrlCt court.
The legal Gentlemen are as completely at
| swords points in the details of the cases as
| the petitions would indicate. Shea says that
| the money was paid to him all right but that
| he paid 1t to |. n. tlickingcr, and received
| from him a personal receipt for the sum.
| When he left the clerks Office he left the re-
| ceipt there, where it belonged, but what be-
| came Of it then is n mystery he would
| at this moment like very much
| to solve. He says that Flicknger
| was not the attorney cf record in the case.
| He Explains the queer circumstance of hav-
| ing the same client as the man on the other
| side, by saying that F'lickinger began the
| suit without any authority from Lew what
| ever, and that he has been tho real attorney
| for Lew from the start.
On the other hand F'lickinger says that he
| is LEWIS attorney, and that shea had nc
| right to use his clients name in the case
| He states that an affidavit TO that effect has
| been sent for by one of Lewis relatives who
| resides in the city, and will be in the field In
| few days. He stouty denies having re-
| ceived any money from Shea in salts faction
| of Lewis judgment.
| One peculiar feature of the business is that
! each party claims to have been the first tc
! begin his suit and each claims that the other
has filed his simply for spite work.
| 1t is evident that no love is lost between
Shea and E'lckiuger and the public will bt
| interested in finding out which OF them come:
out at the small end Of the horn when the
trial comes on.
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