Recht v. Urban Redevelopment Authority

Weiss, J.,

— This matter concerns a petition filed by John B. Nicklas, Jr., of McGrady & Nicklas, a member of this bar, praying for a charging lien against a verdict in the sum of $6,360 awarded by jury to plaintiff on account of the taking by defendant authority of an undivided one-sixth interest of plaintiff in certain real estate in the 2nd Ward of the City of Clairton, Allegheny County, and asking that judgment be awarded to petitioner in the sum of $750 for professional services rendered out of the funds.

From the pleadings and the testimony taken at the trial before the court without a…