Coleman v. Austin

1. In order to render the lien of an attorney at law, upon property recovered by him in behalf of his client or upon property the title to which in a suit therefor he has successfully defended, binding upon hona, fide purchasers of such property, it is incumbent on the attorney to file, as provided in section 1980 of the code, his assertion claiming a lien on the property in question; but such filing is not essential to the validity of the lien as between' the attorney and his client, or as between him and other creditors of the latter.

2. An attorney’s lien may, as against the liens of other…