Goodrich v. . McDonald
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by defendant McDonald from judgment of the General Term of tlié Supreme Court-in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made July 1, 1886, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term.
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Appeal by defendant McDonald from judgment of the General Term of tlié Supreme Court-in the fourth judicial department, entered upon an order made July 1, 1886, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. (Reported below, 41 Hun, 235.) About the year 1870, Mrs. Jennie L. Graves, a daughter of the defendant Mrs. McDonald, employed Milo Goodrich, the plaintiff’s intestate, as her attorney to prosecute an action in her favor as administratrix of her deceased husband’s estate, against William T. Porter and others who resided in…
1Opinion of the CourtEarl, J.
The judgment in the action brought by Mrs. Graves against Porter and others, was perfected .on the 26th day of June, 1877, about two years before the amendment of section 66 of the Code of Civil Procedure enlarging the scope of that section, so that now an attorney who appears for a party has a lien upon his client’s cause of action, which attaches “ to a verdict, report, decision or judgment in his client’s favor and the proceeds thereof, in whosoever hands they may come.” The section as amended was prospective only in its operation and can have no effect upon a judgment previously…
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