Renick v. Ludington
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier, rendered on the 22d day of November, 1878, in two causes in chancery in said court then pending, in the first of which B. F* Renick and others were plaintiffs and Samuel C. Lud-ington was defendant, and in the second of which D. J. Ford & Son and others were plaintiffs andB. F. Renick and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of James F. Patton.
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Appeal from and supersedeas to a decree of the circuit court of the county of Greenbrier, rendered on the 22d day of November, 1878, in two causes in chancery in said court then pending, in the first of which B. F* Renick and others were plaintiffs and Samuel C. Lud-ington was defendant, and in the second of which D. J. Ford & Son and others were plaintiffs andB. F. Renick and others were defendants, allowed upon the petition of James F. Patton. Hon. H. A. Holt, judge of the eighth judicial circuit, rendered the decree appealed from. Green, President, furnishes the following statement of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Green, Peesident,
delivered the opinion of the Court:
The principal question involved in this appeal is, whether James F. Patton has an attorney’s lien for his fees on the fund in the case of Renick v. Ludington, coming to his client Renick, for his fees in this and other suits, which had been prosecuted by him for the recovery of the claim in favor of Renick v. Ludington, and which claim was recognized and a decree rendered therefor in this suit, as against the assignees without notice of this fund claiming by virtue of assignments made in their favor by Renick. The first inquiry is, whether…
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