In re the Estate of McCormick

Leyden, C. P. J.

This application, seeking the equitable intervention oí the court, was originally made in our Court of Common Pleas on petition and order to show cause, as a step in the cause there pending, but later transferred by mutual consent to this court. The litigants have agreed that the determination here will be effectual and binding in the action in the pleas.

The petitioner, Walter J. Preund, a duly licensed attorney and counselor-at-law of the State of ISTew Jersey, seeks to impress a lien for legal services rendered by him to Arthur T. W. MacCormick in the matter of the above…