Royal Insurance Co. v. Simon

The Chancellor :

This case presents the demands of rival claimants to have their respective claims paid out of a judgment which Simon recovered against the complainant for loss suffered by him under fire insurance contracts.

I. One of the claimants is Percy Warren Green who acted as attorney for Simon and conducted the suit which eventuated in the judgment. He contends that he is entitled to a lien ahead of other claiming defendants whose rights are based on execution attachments laid by them as the judgment creditors of Simon in the hands of the insurance company, his debtor. Green undertook…