Dodds v. Stellar

Plaintiff appeals from certain orders made in ancillary proceedings in his malpractice action and affecting the distribution of the proceeds of recovery by (1) granting the claimant “expenditures for compensation” and (2) denying plaintiff an allowance for attorney fees. Plaintiff argues: (1) the improper scope of the lien award and (2) the inequity of the disallowance of the attorney fee. His position is well taken as to the first point but not as to the second.

While employed as a workman in the yards of the California Shipbuilding Corporation, plaintiff “suffered a bruise and laceration ...…