Turtle Creek Bank & Trust Co. v. Murdock

Baldrige, J.,

Opinion by

This appeal is from the order of the court below sustaining exceptions filed to a sheriff’s special return of the sale of certain real estate with a schedule of the distribution of the proceeds attached thereto and made a part thereof. The question before us is: Are attorneys,. who successfully established their client’s legal ownership of certain real estate in an equity proceeding they instituted, entitled to an attorney’s charging lien on a fund derived from the subsequent sheriff’s Sale of that real estate?

The essential facts, contained in a ¡stipulation entered…