140 Iowa 635 | Iowa | 1909
— The plaintiffs, who constitute a firm of practicing lawyers, having acted as attorneys for the defendant Ranck in certain litigation between him and the city of Cedar Rapids, and halving' recovered a judgment in his favor for damages, filed a lien thereon to- secure the payment of an alleged balance due them for services . so rendered. To collect the alleged balance due for such services and enforce said lien, plaintiffs instituted this action in equity, naming as defendant both Ranck and the city of Cedar Rapids. The city appeared-to the action, admitted its indebtedness to Ranck,. and, having deposited with the clerk city •warrants to the amount of the sum so due, asked to be dismissed. The defendant Ranck also appeared, and, before answering, filed his- bond with approved sureties to release the attorney’s lien in substantial accordance with the provisions of Code, section 322, and thereupon moved for an order directing the release and delivery to him of the city warrants deposited with the clerk, and further moved that the action be transferred to the law calendar, and tried as a law action. The motion for the release of the warrants was sustained in part only; the clerk being directed to retain a sufficient amount thereof to secure the plaintiffs’ claim, and the motion to trans
For the reasous stated, this cause must be remanded for further proceedings in harmony with the views here expressed. — Reversed.