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Quinn v. Ohlerking
37 Ill. App. 315
Ill. App. Ct.
1890
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Waterman, J.

This was a snit to recoirer for attorney’s fees incurred by the lessor of certain premises in enforcing one of the covenants of the lease. It is insisted by appellant that the suit in which the attorney’s services were rendered having been brought after the end of the term, everything that could be recovered under the covenants of the lease should have been, and must be, presumed to have been therein included. It is quite clear that what would be a reasonable, or proper attorney’s fee for enforcing any of the covenants of the lease, could not be determined until the termination of the litigation necessary in order to enforce such covenants. Such litigation might be protracted for a long time and require very great labor, or it might be brief and necessitate but little attention. It was, therefore, impossible for the plaintiff in the suit to collect rent, to show how much such suit would eventually cost him in the way of attorney’s fees.

The former suit was merely to recover an installment of rent, and it is not-pretended that any claim for attorney’s fees was therein made, or that the judgment included any allowance for anything save rent; there is, therefore, no reason for holding the judgment in that case res adjudicóla as to the matters and things of this. Judgment affirmed.

Case Details

Case Name: Quinn v. Ohlerking
Court Name: Appellate Court of Illinois
Date Published: Nov 11, 1890
Citation: 37 Ill. App. 315
Court Abbreviation: Ill. App. Ct.
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