Milligan v. Circuit Court

This is a petition for writ of prohibition filed by Phillip J. Milligan to prevent the Crawford County Circuit Court from exercising jurisdiction over an amended complaint in intervention filed by the Sexton Law Firm, P.A., and Sam Sexton, Jr. (Sexton). We deny the writ.

On May 9, 1996, the Crawford County Circuit Court granted Sexton’s motion to intervene in John Watson, Phyllis Watson, et al. v. G. Ray Baker Trucking, Inc., et al. (the Watson case), for the purpose of establishing an attorney’s lien over one-half of the attorney fees generated through Milligan’s representation of the…