Forbush v. Leonard
Supreme Court of Minnesota
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BLUB EARTH COUNTY. Points and Authorities of Appellant. I. — The Appellants bad an attorney’s lien on the judgment, and the payment thereof by the Defendant Dukes, after notice of such lien, was a payment in his own wrong. See Comp. Stat., 168. This statute is merely an affirmance of the common law. Dunlap’s Paley on Agency, 131, note. An attorney has a lien without statutory provisions, lb. note.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF BLUB EARTH COUNTY. Points and Authorities of Appellant. I. — The Appellants bad an attorney’s lien on the judgment, and the payment thereof by the Defendant Dukes, after notice of such lien, was a payment in his own wrong. See Comp. Stat., 168. This statute is merely an affirmance of the common law. Dunlap’s Paley on Agency, 131, note. An attorney has a lien without statutory provisions, lb. note. An attorney or solicitor may obtain an order to stop his ■client from receiving money recovered in a suit in which he has been employed, until his bill is paid. 1…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Emmett, C. J.
This is an appeal from an *305order denying a motion made in the case- by Franklin H.. Waite, Esq., the attorney for the Plaintiff, on behalf of him- - self as such attorney, and of Waite and Burt, who had render- • ed services to the Plaintiff as attorneys in another action, commenced by Wilkinson and Burt, his attorneys, and out of which the present action seems remotely to have arisen. The object of the motion was to enforce an attorney’s lien on the judgment rendered in this action, for the services rendered by said several attorneys, in this and the other action…
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