Cooper v. Jackson

Opinion by

ESTES, C.

Parties appear in the same order as in the trial court. John T. Cooper, William Neff, and L. E. Neff, attorneys, sued Fannie Jackson, William Jackson, Eastman Richards, J. B. Lucas, and Britton H. Tabor to recover an one-balf interest in 80 acres of land and $5,000 for legal services. Tbe action was brought under section 4102, Comp. Stat. 1921, providing that should a party to an action, whose interests are adverse to the client contracting with an attorney, settle or compromise tbe cause of actiom or claim wherein is involved an attorney’s lien without the attorney having…