DeKing v. Urban Investment & Development Co.

This is an appeal from orders of the circuit court of Cook County denying respondent John J. Lowrey’s request for a change of venue and determining that Lowrey had no right to attorney fees resulting from a case in which he had been replaced as counsel. The principal issue on appeal is whether the court had subject matter jurisdiction under the attorney’s lien statute (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 13, par. 14), to adjudicate Lowrey’s right to claim attorney fees on any other theory or basis where Lowrey did not assert a lien under the statute.

Timothy DeKing was injured on April 7, 1980, and on…