Scoville v. Trustees of Schools

Citations

• 65 Ill. 523

Syllabus

<p>Contract—-for special services—plaintiff m/ust perform before entitled to compensation. If an agent or attorney, having undertaken to collect a debt for a certain share of what he may recover, finally abandons further effort as useless, and at a subsequent period, the principal receives payment through new instrumentalities, or from causes with which the agent has no connection, the latter can not claim the share to which his contract would have entitled him if payment had been secured by his own efforts.</p>