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RHOADES v. NORFOLK & WESTERN RY. CO.

No. 51678.

78 Ill.2d 217 (1979)

399 N.E.2d 909

WILLIAM D. RHOADES et al. v. NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY et al., Appellees (Chapman and Chapman, Chartered, Appellant).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed October 19, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard M. Ring, of Chicago, for appellant.

Pope and Driemeyer, Thomas W. Alvey, Jr., and William A. Schmitt, of Belleville, for appellees.

Reversed and remanded.

MR. JUSTICE KLUCZYNSKI delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal involves an action to recover attorney's fees allegedly due under a contingent-fee contract entered into between Chapman and Chapman, a law firm in Granite City, and William D. Rhoades, an employee of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company. The Norfolk and Western was named a party defendant because it paid a personal injury...

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