McLendon v. Truckee Land Co.

The statute (Code of 1923, § 6262) gives attorneys at law “a lien on all papers and money of their clients in their possession for services rendered them, in reference thereto,” and the statute (Code of 1923, § 8935) provides that “any lien may be enforced in the manner provided by statute, if so provided, or in equity.” Russell v. Thornton et al., ante, p. 60, 112 So. 347.

While the bill avers that the relation of attorney and client has never existed between the complainant and Jessica B. Cairns, one of the movants for a summary judgment against complainant, and that the money now in…