Case Name: M. C. Campbell et al. v. Leroy A. Goddard
Court: Illinois Appellate Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1885-11-27
Citations: 17 Ill. App. 385
Docket Number: 
Parties: M. C. Campbell et al. v. Leroy A. Goddard.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Appellate Court Reports
Volume: 17
Pages: 385–385

Head Matter:
M. C. Campbell et al. v. Leroy A. Goddard.
Confession of judgment—Attorney’s fee.—In determining the reasonableness of an attorney’s fee in a confession of judgment, regard must be had to the amount involved as well as to the labor and skill required to perform the services charged for. In the absence of all proof, the court is not prepared to hold that the fee in this case is so unreasonable as to justifj a reversal.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Williamson county; the Hon. David J. Baker, Judge, presiding.
Opinion filed November 27, 1885.
Messrs. Clemens & Warder, for appellants.
Messrs. Young, Barr & Lemma, for appellee.

Opinion:
Wilkin, J.
This case is substantially the same as M. 0. Campbell et al. v. Leroy A. Goddard, decided at this term of this court. The fee allowed in the judgment confessed is much larger than in that case, being $125.
The confession in this case was on two notes, and the whole amount of the judgment $4,651.10. In determining the reasonableness of an attorney's fee, regard must be had to the amount involved as well as to the labor and skill required to perform the services charged for, and in the absence of all proof, we are not prepared to hold that this fee is so unreasonable as to justify a reversal of the case. In fact, in this, as in the case above referred to, appellants do not ask a reversal upon the ground that the fee allowed is unreasonable, but because, as they insist, no fee whatever should ha\ e been allowed. Therefore, the reasons assigned for the affirmance of that case are applicable to this.
Affirmed.