Humphrey v. Browning
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Hancock county; the Hon. Joseph Sibley, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed in the court. below by the appellees, against the appellants, to obtain a lien for their claim to compensation upon certain real estate, recovered in an action of ejectment, prosecuted by them as the attorneys of appellants.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese
The only-important question presented by this record which we propose to examine is, has an attorney at law a lien upon the real estate recovered in an action of ejectment, prosecuted by him ?
This is a new question in this court, and if it rests upon a great preponderance of authority in its favor, as argued by appellees, it would seem to be no difficult matter to produce the authority. If it does exist in any country in the world, where the common law prevails, or equity jurisprudence obtains, the books ought to be full of such cases. Hot a single case has been referred to by appellees…
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