Camp v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.

1. Attorneys at law have a lien, superior to all other liens but tax liens, upon suits, judgments, and decrees for money, and no person “shall be at liberty to satisfy said suit, judgment, or decree until the lien or claim of the attorney for his fees is fully satisfied; and attorneys at law shall have the same right and power over said suits, judgments, and decrees, to enforce their liens, as their clients had or may have for the amount due thereon to them.” Civil Code (1910), § 3364 (2). The only notice necessary in a pending action of the lien of the plaintiff’s attorney on the suit and…