Curly Customs, Inc. v. Pioneer Financial

We consider a proceeding pursuant to G. L. c. 221, § 50, the attorney’s lien statute, wherein a default judgment resulted in a substantial recovery for an attorney notwithstanding that his former client had not prevailed in the underlying *93litigation, thus receiving no proceeds to which the attorney’s lien could attach. The former client’s motion to set aside the default judgment, see Mass.R.Civ.P. 60(b), 365 Mass. 828 (1974), was denied by a judge of the Superior Court, who also declined to reconsider the decision, and the former client appealed from each order. We conclude that the…