Ex parte Kyle
California Supreme Court
This was an application to require a defendant, against whom judgment bad been recovered, to pay to the attorney of the plaintiff a quantum meruit compensation for his services in conducting the suit on behalf of the plaintiff. The judgment recovered was for §7000, and the amount, which the attorney claimed, should be first paid to him out of the judgment, was 82000.
1Opinion of the Court
*332 By the Court,
Bennett, J,
The applicant acted as the attorney and counsel of one Chiprnan, in the prosecution of a suit in which judgment of $7000 and upwards was recovered. The defendant appealed ; and before the appeal was brought on for argument in this court the suit was settled. The applicant moves the court, that the plaintiff be required to pay him $2000 for his services out of the judgment recovered. An attorney has a lien for his costs upon money recovered by his client or awarded to him in a cause in which the attorney was employed, in case the money has come into the hands of the…
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