Koons v. Beach

This was a suit by the appellee to declare and enforce a lien for attorney’s fees against a fund remaining in the hands of Koons, administrator, and primarily distributable to the appellant, Cory, but claimed by the other appellants as assignees of Cory. Two questions are presented: The action of the court in overruling the several demurrers of the appellants to the complaint, and in overruling their motion for a new trial.

The complaint alleged that the appellee was an attorney in regular practice; that Koons, as administrator, held for collection a pplicy of life insurance, payable to the…