Griggs v. White
Nebraska Supreme Court
This was an appeal from the district court of Jefferson county. Tried below before Pound, J. From tbe pleadings and evidence in the cause it appears that in 1869, Calhoun and Croxton, attorneys residing in Nebraska City, Otoe county, sent to Griggs and Ashby, at Beatrice, Gage county, a transcript of a.judgment recovered by them in tbe district court of Otoe county in an action wherein Benjamin F. Hampton was plaintiff and one James Frazier was defendant.
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This was an appeal from the district court of Jefferson county. Tried below before Pound, J. From tbe pleadings and evidence in the cause it appears that in 1869, Calhoun and Croxton, attorneys residing in Nebraska City, Otoe county, sent to Griggs and Ashby, at Beatrice, Gage county, a transcript of a.judgment recovered by them in tbe district court of Otoe county in an action wherein Benjamin F. Hampton was plaintiff and one James Frazier was defendant. In 1873, a decree was rendered in the district court of Jefferson county foreclosing a certain mortgage held by said James Frazier against…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxwell, J.
Section eight, Chap. Y, Gen. Statutes, provides as follows: “An attorney has a lien for a general balance of compensation upon any papers of his client which may come into his possession in the course of his professional employment; upon money in his hands belonging to his client, and 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.”
In Boyer v. Clark & McCandless, 8 Neb., 168, this court held that an attorney had a lien upon a judgment to the extent of his reasonable fees and disbursements…
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