Case ID: minn_140/html/0504-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pee Cubiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

K. J. NELSON v. EDWARD F. BERKNER.
    
    May 3, 1918.
    No. 20,803.
    Attorney’s lien enforced.
    Where an attorney had a contract with his client for one-half of the amount recovered, and before trial the parties settled for $500 without the consent of the attorney, he was entitled to judgment against defendant for $250. [Reporter.]
    Action in the district court for Brown county to recover $3,036.90. Albert Hauser, attorney for plaintiff, obtained an order directing defendant to show cause why the lien of said attorney should not be established and the amount thereof should not be determined. The matter was heard by Olsen, J., who made findings and ordered judgment in favor of the attorney for $250. From an order denying his motion for a new trial, defendant appealed^
    Affirmed.
    
      Pfaender & Erickson, for appellant.
    
      Albert Hauser, pro se.
    
      
      Reported in 167 N. W. 423.
    
   Pee Cubiam.

The plaintiff sued the defendant in an action for the recovery of money. Before trial they settled for $500 without the consent of the plaintiff’s attorney. The plaintiff had a contract with his attorney for one-half of the-recovery. No question is made as to the validity of the contract. The plaintiff did not pay his attorney, and the attorney is unable'to collect it. The attorney was entitled to a lien for his agreed compensation. G-. S. 1913, § 4955. Tlie court ordered judgment in favor of the attorney and against the defendant for $250. This was right.

Order affirmed.