Is an attorney's lien waived by procuring a transfer to the client of land attached to the suit in satisfaction of the judgment?

"New York", United States of America

The following excerpt is from Goodrich v. McDonald , 112 N.Y. 157, 19 N.E. 649 (N.Y. 1889):

In Cowen v. Boone, 48 Iowa, 350, it was held that an attorney's lien upon a judgment is waived by his procuring a transfer to his client of land attached in the suit in satisfaction of the judgment. There the client having received the transfer of the land conveyed it to a third person, and took back a mortgage for the purchase money. She then assigned the mortgage, and the attorneys, being defendants in a suit to foreclose it, asserted their lien, and it was held that their lien was upon the judgment, and did not follow the land when the title was perfected in the client.

In Whittle v. Newman, 34 Ga. 377, it was held that after the litigation was ended, and the client had possessed himself of the entire fund recovered by the litigation, the court has no power to give relief to the attorney.

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