Brown v. Erwin
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Doddridge County. Suit for enforcement of tbe lien of a decree by Tina V. Brown and others against Ruie Edna Erwin and others, and from a decree in favor of the plaintiffs the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Poffenbarger, Judge:
The subject matter of the controversy brought up by this appeal is a claim of a lien for attorney’s fees and expenses, upon a fund brought into the hands of the court below, through a sale of real estate by one of its special commissioners. Originally, it was a claim of a lien upon a decree obtained by one attorney, having .the dignity, force and effect of a judgment, and now upon a fund realized upon the decree by a sale of the property upon which it^was a lien, in a subsequent suit prosecuted by another attorney, for some of *116the original plaintiffs, who also claims a…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Renick v. LudingtonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1880
- Burkhart v. ScottWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1911
- Waggy v. WaggyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1915
- Ash v. LynchWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1913
- Fisher v. MyliusWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1907
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Young v. HodgesWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1939