Legal Opinion
Starks v. Browning
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided August 3, 1999No. 01A01-9801-CV-00038PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KOCH, Judge.
This appeal involves a law firm’s efforts to enforce a statutory attorney’s lien on the proceeds of a post-verdict personal injury settlement. After the law firm withdrew from representing the plaintiff because of a dispute arising from the settlement, the Circuit Court for Robertson County, the court where the underlying personal injury action had been tried, granted the law firm’s motion for a lien on the settlement proceeds for its fee and costs advanced on the plaintiffs behalf. Thereafter, the trial court granted the law firm’s motion to execute on the lien and…
2Cases cited39 opinions
- The First National Bank of Cincinnati v. Sidney Pepper, Elsie W. Cox, Defendants-Cross-Claimants-Appellants, Modern Talking Picture Service, Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1972
- Southern v. Beeler, Atty.-Gen.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1946
- Palmer v. PalmerCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1977
- Alexander v. InmanTennessee Supreme Court · 1998
- White v. McBrideTennessee Supreme Court · 1996
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