48 So. 101 | Ala. | 1908
The appeal in this case is taken from the decree of the chancellor overruling the respondents’ motion to dismiss the bill for want of equity. The purpose of the bill is to effectuate and enforce an alleged lien for an attorney’s fee in favor of the complainant on a money decree obtained by his services rendered as such attorney in favor of the respondent Mildred Fuller against one Charles H. Schwaemmle.
On a motion to dismiss a bill for want of equity, the facts stated in the bill are to be taken as admitted. After averring complainant’s employment as attorney, the services rendered, and the procuring of the decree, it is stated and averred in the bill “that said sum of $500 was paid into the hands of said Boyles & Kohn (respondents), who had become associated with your orator as assistant solicitors at a very late stage of the proceedings; * * * that said sum is still in their hands and retained by.them for a proper disposition of the same, and subject to orator’s lien upon the same for his services as solicitor in said cause, and upon which they are advised, believe, and admit he has such lien.”
Under the particular facts stated in the bill, the lien given by law upon the decree attached to the funds iu the hands of Boyles & Kohn. The fact that Boyles & Kohn as associate solicitors received into their hands from the defendant in the decree the amount of the decree, as they were authorized to do, having themselves a lien upon the decree for their' services as attorneys, could not in equity operate to defeat the complainant’s lien.
It is urged as a defense against the equity of the bill that the fund was not paid into the registry of the court. This is of no importance under the facts of the bill. The only difference that this could make would be in the procedure by the complainant for relief. If the fund had
The decree of the chancellor is affirmed.
Affirmed.