Amos v. Powell

—George M. Powell, an attorney at law, brought suit in equity alleging in his bill that he was entitled to enforce a lien for attorney’s fees on a certain specific asset of a defunct bank, Farmers Bank & Trust Company, namely, a $10,500.00 warrant of Lake Ashby Drainage District, that had been placed in the attorney’s hands for collection, at a time when the bank was a going banking institution.

The Chancellor decreed in favor of a lien upon the warrant for the attorney’s fees sued for, and ordered the liqui dator of the defunct bank to pay off the amount decreed to be due, out of any funds in…