Lewsader v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

PRESIDING JUSTICE GARMAN

delivered the opinion of the court:

Intervenor-appellant Bettye D. Kelso, administrator of the estate of Thomas R. Kelso (Estate), appeals from a May 9, 1997, order of the circuit court of Champaign County. The trial court found that the Estate had neither a valid statutory attorney’s lien (770 ILCS 5/1 (West 1996)) nor an equitable lien in the settlement proceeds in the matter of Lewsader v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., herein. The Estate has abandoned the argument that a valid statutory attorney’s lien exists and now argues only that Kelso’s agreement with the Lewsaders and…