Court Opinion

ID: 9673556
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:14:24.728461+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:30:35.367150
License: Public Domain

CLAYTON, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. As the majority opinion of the court points out, the Special Fund failed to appeal the award of attorney fees as provided under KRS 42.285. Consideration of the merits of this case by this court is but a means of circumventing the procedural time limitations of the statute.
Furthermore, Respondent Friend acquired an attorney’s lien on the award pur*950suant to KRS 30.200 (now KRS 376.460) which vested at the time the award was made. See Elkhorn Stone Company v. Webb, Ky., 478 S.W.2d 720 (1972). I fail to see how the lien can be invalidated now.
I would affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals and the judgment of the trial court.