Mayer v. Yellow Cab Co.

The case at bar is a proceeding to enforce petitioners’ claim against defendant under the Attorney’s Lien Act, Cahill’s St. ch. 13, ¶ 13; section 14, chapter 13, Smith-Hurd Illinois Revised Statutes 1925. That section reads:

“That attorneys at law shall have a lien upon all claims, demands and causes of action, including all claims for unliquidated damages, which may be placed in their hands by their clients for suit or collection, or upon which suit or action has been instituted, for the amount of any fee which may have been agreed upon by and between such attorneys and their clients, or, in…