Baxter v. Bates
Supreme Court of Georgia
Money rule. Attorney and Client. Executions. Justice Courts. Jurisdiction. Promissory Notes. Before Judge Fain. Bartow Superior Court. January Term, 1882. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Speer, Justice.
This was a rule to distribute money in Bartow superior court.
1 The record presents but two questions for review: First, whether a junior judgment creditor, under whose process the property is levied on, sale made and money brought into court for distribution, is entitled to commissions or reasonable fees on said fund to the exclusion of older judgment liens on said fund. The court rejected the claim, and plaintiff excepted.
In claim cases the attorney causing the levy and prosecuting the rights of the plaintiff in fi.fa. shall be entitled to his fees from the proceeds of the…
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