Ferris v. Wulf

Shortly after the accident, a claim for damages was taken up on behalf of the plaintiff by E.J. Fribourg, and the defendant's interest was taken charge of by the firm of Hays, Baron & Matthews. Negotiations looking to a settlement of this claim were carried on between these attorneys until December, 1931, when the firm of Hays, Baron & Matthews informed Fribourg that they no longer represented the defendant; whereupon action was commenced in the Woodbury district court and original notice was served on December 31, 1931, for the January, 1932, term of said court. At said term, Naglestad, Pizey & Johnson appeared for the defendant, and on January 21, 1932, the plaintiff filed an amended and substituted petition. On March 7, 1932, the cause was assigned for hearing on March 14th following. The case was not tried when reached in the assignment because the defendant was attending the funeral of a [216 Iowa Page 290]