Garner v. Garner

The complainant sought to establish a resulting trust in land, the title to which was in the defendant, but the bill was dismissed at this term. The solicitor of the defendant now moves the court to declare a lien on the land in his favor for the compensation due him for professional services in conducting the defense. The language used in some of the cases seems to justify such an extension of the lien. But the question has been recently considered by the court, and the conclusion reached in unreported cases that the lien only exists in the ease of the actual recovery •of land by a suit…