47 P. 101 | Or. | 1896
Opinion by
This is a summary proceeding against the clerk of the trial court to compel him to enter of record the sat
It was claimed in the court below that the certificate of satisfaction was not executed until after the notice of the attorneys’ lien had been served and filed, and was dated back for the purpose of defrauding them out of their compensation. This contention, however, was not supported by the evidence, and therefore the only question in this case is, At what time does the lien of an attorney attach to a judgment recovered by him as against the judgment debtor? And this question must be determined from the provisions of the statute. It is unnecessary to stop to inquire as to an attorney’s rights in this regard at common law, for our statute covers the entire subject, gives the lien, and specifically points out when and upon what terms and conditions it shall attach, or, as put by Mr. Justice Elliott in a similar case, “the statute is now the source from which the lien is derived, and it can only exist as the statute creates it”: Alderman v. Nelson, 111 Ind. 255. By section 1044 of Hill’s Code, it is provided that an attorney has a lien “upon a judgment or decree to the
Reversed.