Barker v. Leggett

• On three occasions, the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, construing statutes of that State, has ruled that plaintiff, his associates, and others who were claiming attorneys’ fees and expenses to- be a lien upon, and payable out of, the insurance restitution fund referred to in the complaint, had no lien thereon and were not entitled to be paid out of such fund.

In Aetna Insurance Co. v. O’Malley, 1938, 343 Mo. 1232, 124 S.W.2d 1164, 1168, that Court specifically rejected the claim of plaintiff that he was entitled to a lien on said fund for attorney’s fees, on the ground that the…