Opinion
Gen. No. 41,596. (Abstract of Decision.)
Opinion filed April 15, 1941.
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS, § 156 — lien, contract procured by person not authorized to represent attorney. Plaintiff's claim of an attorney's lien was properly denied, where evidence showed that mother of injured minor was induced by plaintiff's brother to sign a contingent fee contract, that she thought she was dealing with plaintiff's brother who posed as an attorney but the contract contained plaintiff's name, and that the contract was procured at the hospital while the minor was in the operating room and his mother was very nervous and had been given a sedative, as trial court was justified in finding from plaintiff's evidence that plaintiff's brother was not authorized to represent him and that under all the circumstances there was no lawful contract.
See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.
Appeal from Circuit Court of Cook county; Hon. MICHAEL FEINBERG, presiding.
Affirmed. Heard in second division, first district, this court at February term, 1941.
Irving G. Zazove, pro se;
Frank L. Kriete, Charles E. Green and Arthur J. Donovan, for appellees;
John R. Guilliams, of counsel.
"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed April 15, 1941.