Wood v. Hughes

At the November term, 1878, of the Lake Circuit Court, one Joseph' E. Young, executor, obtained a personal judgment against the appellee John M. Hughes for $15,602, including $325 as and for attorneys fees, together with a decree foreclosing a mortgage of certain real estate, securing said amount, against the appellees Hughes and wife. The appellant and another were the attorneys of the said Young in procuring said judgment and decree, and, as such, entered upon the record of said decree an attorney’s lien for said sum of $325. The property was sold upon said decree for $325 less than the…