Fetters v. Atkinson

This proceeding grows out of Atkinson v. Weidner, 79 Mich. 575, 83 Id. 412. Complainant was one of the defendants in that suit, and now seeks to restrain the appropriation of the surplus remaining after* the satisfaction of the Booss & Co. judgment. Defendant Swift was the attorney for Booss & Co., and he alone answers, setting up that—

“The defendant Atkinson, as the legal owner of the demand note hereinbefore referred to, had a right to collect the same, and to authorize this defendant to collect the same, and had a right to agree with this defendant to pay him ■ for his services in the…