O'Connor v. Erickson

Susan F. Kierstead, late of Madison county, died testate June 16, 1927, without issue, leaving property of the value of $60,000, or about that sum. June 8, 1929, attorneys Oscar B. Clark and William Niklaus, interveners, filed a *424lien for legal services in the district court for Platte county to recover $5,000 from Samuel G. Deane and Ellen Deane Erickson, defendants and heirs of their aunt, Susan F. Kierstead. When Clark and Niklaus filed their lien, the defendants had theretofore been allowed $6,127.50, as their distributive share in the Kierstead estate. Another claim was filed against the…