Carpenter v. Hazel
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Poinsett Circuit Court, First Division; W. J. Driver, Judge; The circuit court had jurisdiction to enforce the lien. The statute is conclusive. Kirby’s Digest, § 4458. 1. The circuit court had no jurisdiction to enforce the lien. Section 4458, Kirby’s Digest, is not applicable here. 61 Ark. 410; 62 Id. 223; 65 Id. 437; 64 Id. 438; 34 Id. 204. The attorney must look to the administrator who employed him for compensation. Cases supra.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.
Mary Person, a negress, was killed at Marked Tree, Arkansas, by a train operated by the receivers of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company, and letters of administration on her estáte were issued by the clerk of the probate court of Poinsett County to J. B. Phillips, who gave bond and took charge of the estate. Phillips, as such administrator, entered into a written contract with appellant C. T. Carpenter, an attorney at law, to bring suit against the operators of the railroad and recover damages sustained by the estate on account of the death of said decedent, and in the contract…
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