Steiner v. Stein

This is a suit against an attorney-at-law of New Jersey to recover from him certain papers, the property of complainants, which came into his possession in the course of his services for complainants and which he retains by virtue of his attorney's general lien. Complainants offered him $3,300, which they assert is the sum due him under an agreement fixing his fee. He refused to surrender the papers unless he were paid $20,000, which sum he was willing to accept, provided that the dispute as to fees could be thus settled. Complainants were unwilling to meet his demand and filed their bill in…