Wolf v. Sherman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• whether equitable attorney’s hen arises depends on “whether the agreement and surrounding circumstances sufficiently indicated that the parties looked to a particular source for payment of the [attorney’s] fee”
• “ ‘The trend of the modern decisions ... is to protect the right of the attorney to receive compensation.’ Debts payable by clients to attorneys should in general be subject to the same rules that normally apply to other debtor-creditor relationships.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).