Gordon v. Stewart

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the district court has incidental jurisdiction over issues concerning the establishment and enforcement of an attorney’s lien
• upholding an award in quantum meruit to an attorney after breach of contract
• upholding an award in quantum meruit to an attorney after breach of contract
• “The attorneys’ right is not based upon (or 21 limited to) his lien. It is based upon contract express or implied. The lien, as is true of 22 other forms of lien, is but security for his right.”

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