Phillips v. Jones

AREND, Associate Justice.

Appellants, who are husband and wife, appeal from a final order of the District Court 1 denying their motion for an order requiring the Clerk of the Court to pay over to them a check for $2,000 lodged with him by the appellee as the cash settlement portion of a settlement agreement which resulted in the termination of the law suit between the parties. Appellants, through their counsel, claim that the $2,000 was subject to an attorney’s lien of their counsel, which was prior and superior to an attachment lien sought to be impressed upon the fund in court by a creditor…