Tynan v. Auto Mart

The plaintiff brings action to foreclose a lien which he alleges now subsists by virtue of section 66 of the Code of Civil Procedure, upon a cause of action in which the plaintiff’s assignor, an attorney, represented one *50Anna Gross, who brought action thereon in the Municipal Court of the city of New York, and subsequently compromised and settled said action without paying the plaintiff’s assignor for his services as attorney. The defendant demurs on the ground that the complaint, which sets forth the above facts, fails to state a cause of action. Although it has several times been held that…