Alabama Fuel & Iron Co. v. Denson

Appellee, proceeding to enforce the lien vested in attorneys at law by section 3011 of the Code of 1907, filed his intervention and recovered judgment against appellant. The facts necessary to an understanding of the case are sufficiently stated in the report of a former appeal. Denson v. Alabama Fuel & Iron Co., 198 Ala. 383, 73 South. 525.

Appellant now renews its contention that, in the absence of actual knowledge on the part of the defendant, the filing of a complaint does not vest in the attorney a lien upon the “suit” unless and until service ,of summons has been perfected and so the lis…