Hay v. Duskin

MOLLOY, Judge.

In this appeal, judgment creditors challenge a summary adjudication establishing the priority of a mortgage given by allegedly insolvent judgment debtors to an attorney to secure payment for future legal services over the lien of a previously rendered but subsequently recorded judgment.

Appellants Hay obtained a $110,082.53 judgment against Jack W. Londen and Doris M. Londen, husband and wife, on August 9, 1966. An abstract of this judgment was recorded in the office of the Maricopa County Recorder on December 6,1966. See A.R.S. § 33-961. The abstract, dated December 1, 1966,…