DeKing v. Urban Investment & Development Co.

PRESIDING JUSTICE QUINLAN,

dissenting:

I respectfully dissent. The majority’s decision holds that the trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction under the attorney’s lien statute (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 13, par. 14), to enter any judgment other than an adjudication of the existence or nonexistence of an attorney’s lien. Specifically, the majority says that the trial court in this case only had subject matter jurisdiction to adjudicate whether Lowrey had a lien, and if so, the amount of the lien and the manner of its enforcement. Thus, under the majority’s ruling, the proceeding here was…