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  "id": 2832127,
  "name": "Arthur B. Wright, Appellee, v. John P. Wilson et al., Appellants",
  "name_abbreviation": "Wright v. Wilson",
  "decision_date": "1913-11-20",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 18,446",
  "first_page": "255",
  "last_page": "256",
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      "cite": "183 Ill. App. 255"
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    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
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    "parties": [
      "Arthur B. Wright, Appellee, v. John P. Wilson et al., Appellants."
    ],
    "opinions": [
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        "text": "Mr. Justice Gridley\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\n3. Costs, \u00a7 64*-\u2014when an order .for solicitors may direct payment to solicitors directly. Decree in a chancery proceeding to confirm a settlement of an estate by the parties to a suit in a will contest may award solicitors\u2019 fees payable directly to the solicitors of the complainants from the fund, where the services of the solicitors were for the benefit of the fund and all parties in interest.\n4. Appeal and error, \u00a7 487*\u2014when objection to special interrogatories not preserved. Objection to action of court in submitting interrogatories to the jury, not preserved for review unless urged in the trial court.\n5. Appeal and error, \u00a7 1521*\u2014when submission of special interrogatories harmless. Error of court in submitting special interrogatories to the jury on immaterial facts, held not cause for reversal.\n6. Appeal and error, \u00a7 499*\u2014when objection to allowance of solicitors\u2019 fees must be urged. In an action by an attorney for his share of solicitors\u2019 fees awarded by a decree, objection that plaintiff had from time to time been paid for services under a contract and should not be entitled in equity to additional pay from other persons with whom he had no contractual relations, merely because those persons happened to be benefited thereby, must be urged in the chancery court at the time the allowances were made.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Justice Gridley"
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    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "Scott, Bancroft & Stephens, for appellants; Frank H. Scott and Lester L. Falk, of counsel.",
      "C. H. Poppenhusen, Joseph L. McNab and E. R. Johnston, for appellee; Elbridge Hanecy and S. S. Gregory, of counsel."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Arthur B. Wright, Appellee, v. John P. Wilson et al., Appellants.\nGen. No. 18,446.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Costs, \u00a7 64 \u2014decree construed as to award of solicitors\u2019 fees. A decree in a proceeding to confirm a settlement made between the parties in a will contest, construed as awarding solicitors\u2019 fees directly to the solicitors.\n2. Costs. \u00a7 64 \u2014when decree awarding solicitors\u2019 fees not subject to collateral attack. Attorneys accepting an allowance of solicitors\u2019 fees and giving a receipt therefor cannot be heard to say in a collateral proceeding that the decree was erroneous in awarding same to the solicitors instead of to the parties.\nAppeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Hosea W. Wells, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1912.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed November 20, 1913.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Arthur B. Wright against John P. Wilson, Nathan G. Moore and William B. Mcllvaine, as co-partners engaged in the practice of law under the firm name of Wilson, Moore & Mcllvaine, to recover plaintiff\u2019s share of solicitors\u2019 fees allowed by a decree in a proceeding in which plaintiff was associate counsel. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff for two thousand five hundred dollars, defendants appeal.\nScott, Bancroft & Stephens, for appellants; Frank H. Scott and Lester L. Falk, of counsel.\nC. H. Poppenhusen, Joseph L. McNab and E. R. Johnston, for appellee; Elbridge Hanecy and S. S. Gregory, of counsel.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XIV, same topic and section number."
  },
  "file_name": "0255-01",
  "first_page_order": 277,
  "last_page_order": 278
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