Lichtenheld v. Bersen

Action by plaintiff to recover damages from the defendants, her attorneys, for alleged acts of misconduct in an action to foreclose a mortgage which resulted on the sale in a surplus. The attorneys who began the action and prosecuted it to judgment, anticipating that there would be surplus after the sale, obtained an assignment of a judgment which was a lien subordinate to the mortgage on the premises. This assignment was taken in the name of the plaintiff’s attorneys, Webster & Kruppenbacher; and there was a written agreement that whatever sum should be realized upon the sale was to be…