Haupt v. Charlie's Kosher Market

The is an appeal by an attaching creditor from a judgment giving priority to an attorney’s lien.

Plaintiff, an attorney, was employed by one Mason to prosecute a personal injury action against certain of the above-named defendants. Plaintiff proceeded under a contingent-fee contract which provided that he should receive one-third of any recovery and should have a “lien on the said cause of action, judgment, settlement, amount due or to be paid or become due” for his fee and to repay costs advanced by him.

As a result of plaintiff’s successful prosecution of the personal injury action, a…