People ex rel. Lathrop v. Court of Appeals

The relator, an attorney at law, as plaintiff, brought her action in the district court of the city and county of Denver against Moses Hallett as executor and trustee under the last will and testament of George W. Clayton, deceased, and the city of Denver as cotrustee thereunder to recover a judgment for legal services, which she claimed to have performed under a contract therefor with such executor, in a contest proceeding over the validity of the will, which judgment, when recovered, she sought to have made a lien upon the property of the estate. The district court found against her, and…