Feil v. Wabash R. Co.

Citations

• 119 F. 490
• 1902 U.S. App. LEXIS 5303

Syllabus

<p>1. Security for Costs—Right to Sue as Poor Person—Effect of Contract to Pay Attorney Contingent Fee.</p> <p>A plaintiff in a federal court, who has made a contract with her attorney to prosecute her case for a contingent fee, in a state where the statute recognizes such “contracts as valid, and gives the attorney a special lien for his fee on the judgment recovered, represents as plaintiff not only her own interest, hut that of her attorney, as trustee, and cannot sue as a poor person under the provisions of Act July 20, 1802 (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 708), unless it is shown that all persons beneficially interested in the action come within the terms of the act.</p>