Edwards v. Bynum

This was a suit foreclosing a statutory lien of attorneys at •law on real estate, the same being an action at law. Other parties prayed to be allowed to intervene, alleging as ground of intervention that they held a superior lien in the form of a mortgage upon the same real estate, which had been foreclosed by a court of competent jurisdiction; and that unless they were allowed to intervene, the judgment in favor of plaintiffs would be used to interfere with the lien of intervenors, and would cause a multiplicity of suits. Intervenors prayed that they be made parties defendant and allowed to…