Sweatt v. Acres

Plaintiff, Mina Sweatt, prosecuted a suit for divorce, in which E. R. Acres was her attorney. Therein plaintiff obtained judgment for alimony, which was established as a lien upon the land here in controversy. E. R. Acres, on September 15, 1920, entered in the proper judgment docket notice of attorney’s lien. Afterwards (in 1925) he brought suit against the present plaintiff, to recover his attorney’s fees and to establish and foreclose his attorney’s lien on the judgment and on the real estate now in controversy, which real estate had meantime been sold and conveyed to plaintiff under…