Legal Opinion
Morfeld v. Andrews
Wyoming Supreme Court
Decided May 26, 1978No. 4803PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCLINTOCK, Justice.
Pamela Morfeld 1 appeals from summary judgment entered by the district court of Fremont County, Wyoming, denying her claim for damages alleged to have resulted from conversion and breach of fiduciary duty by her attorney, F. M. Andrews, Jr. 2 The principal issue in the appeal concerns the propriety of his retention of two stock certificates in Utah International, Inc., which had been delivered to him as attorney for Morfeld in the course of divorce proceedings instituted by her husband. Asserting that he had a valid attorney’s lien on the certificates for unpaid legal…
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