Union Building & Saving Ass'n v. Soderquist
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Boone District Court. — Hon. J. B. Whitaker, Judge. Plintiee, in 1891, recovered judgment in the district court of Boone county in a foreclosure proceeding against Soderquist, in which Reed was attorney fox plaintiff.
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Appeal from Boone District Court. — Hon. J. B. Whitaker, Judge. Plintiee, in 1891, recovered judgment in the district court of Boone county in a foreclosure proceeding against Soderquist, in which Reed was attorney fox plaintiff. In 1899 plaintiff, by its receiver, filed a motion in said cause, asking judgment against said Reed for $563.58, the amount of the judgment against Soderquist, - claiming that said amount had been paid to and received by said Reed as attorney for the association, and that he had neglected and refused to pay^said sum over to the plaintiff, although it had been…
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, J.
1 *6982 3 *6994 *697At common law the courts entertain summary proceedings by a client against his attorney to compel payment of money received by the attorney for his client. Such proceedings are based on the principle that the co-urt has power “over it's own officers to prevent them from, or punish them for, committing acts of dishonesty or impropriety calculated to bring contempt upon the administration of justice.” Schell v. City of New York, 128 N. Y. 67, (27 N. E. Rep. 957) ; In re Paschal, 10 Wall 483, (19 L. Ed. 992). “The ground of the jurisdiction thus exercised is the alleged misconduct of the…
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