Eleazer v. Hardaway Concrete Co., Inc.

Goolsby, Judge:

This is an action to dissolve a lien originating by attachment and to recover an attorney’s fee, costs, and disbursements. The principal issue is whether W. Rhett Eleazer, an attorney, possesses an equitable lien upon the proceeds of a judgment he obtained for a client to cover his fee, costs and disbursements in the action which produced the judgment. The trial judge held that a judgment secured by Palmetto Grading and Paving Company, Inc. (Palmetto), against J. A. Metze & Sons, Inc. (Metze), was subject to an equitable lien possessed by Eleazer and that the lien was superior…