Ricardo v. Central Coal & Coke Co.

Citations

• 102 Kan. 170
• 171 P. 351
• 1917 Kan. LEXIS 243

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Attorney’s Lien — Application for Allowance — Affidavits as Evidence. An application for the distribution of a fund against which several attorneys’ liens are claimed is a motion, and the code permits the use of affidavits at the hearing thereof.</p> <p>2. Same — Evidence—Affidavits—Cross-examination of Affiants. An attorney whose claim of lien is denied at such a hearing, because the court is convinced from his own. testimony that he has performed no services entitling him thereto, has no standing to complain of the refusal to allow him to cross-examine the makers of affidavits used in behalf of other claimants.</p>