Breen v. Phillips

1. The right to enforce payment of money by rule is penal in its nature, and must be strictly construed.(ft) Tlie right to rule an attorney for_ the payment of money depends upon the existence of the relation of attorney and client, and is limited to the client.(6) Where an attorney for the plaintiff in a receivership proceeding, to whom the defendant therein, after the dismissal of such proceeding by the plaintiff, delivered a check payable to the order of the defendant and by him indorsed to the receiver, and turned the same over to the attorney, to be delivered to the receiver in payment…