In re the Estate of Crouch

Bewtoh, S.

Section 66 of the Code of Civil Procedure, as amended in 1899, applies to Surrogate’s Courts, and secures to an attorney a lien upon his client’s cause of action, claim or counterclaim, which attaches to a -decision or final order in a client’s favor and the proceeds thereof in whosoever hands they may come. The court has power on petition to determine and enforce the lien. Attorneys had such a lien, however, before the amendment of 1899. Matter of Regan, 167 N. Y. 338.

" Prima facie it is a right accruing through an implied contract.” It is not affected by the fact that the client…