Kansas Pacific Railway Co. v. Thacher
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Douglas District Court. Action by Thacher & Stephens, attorneys-at-law, to recover from the Railway Company as defendant certain moneys alleged to be due to them from defendant by virtue of liens duly acquired on funds in defendant’s hands belonging to the parties originally indebted to plaintiffs, as follows: For services in case of Vm.
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Error from Douglas District Court. Action by Thacher & Stephens, attorneys-at-law, to recover from the Railway Company as defendant certain moneys alleged to be due to them from defendant by virtue of liens duly acquired on funds in defendant’s hands belonging to the parties originally indebted to plaintiffs, as follows: For services in case of Vm. L. Griffiths against the K. P. Railway Co., $500; in case of Nichols & Palmer against the K\ P. Railway Co., $206; and in case of Nichols & Kennedy against the K. P. Railway Co., $668.40. Total amount claimed, $1374.40. Trial at the June Term 1874.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
This was an action brought by defendants in error to recover certain moneys claimed to be due by virtue of an attorney’s lien under §8, page 110, of Gen. Stat., which reads: “An attorney has a lien for a general balance of compensation * * * upon money due to his client, and in the hands of the adverse party, in an action or proceeding in which the attorney was employed, from the time of giving notice of the lien to that party.”
1, Attorney’s lien for fees. Several questions arise which demand notice. It may be premised, that in examining…
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