Mansfield v. Dorland

Heydeheeldt, Justice, delivered the opinion of the Court, with which Murray, Chief Justice, concurred. This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court, setting aside the satisfaction of a judgment. In ex parte Kyle, 1 Cal. Rep. 331, this Court decided that an attorney has no lien upon a judgment recovered in favour of his client, as a compensation for his services. To this decision we give our approval; and where the plaintiff enters satisfaction of a judgment, the attorneys have no right to disturb it. In the case presented by this record, there was no assignment of the judgment, and it is therefore unnecessary to 'consider what^would be the effect of an assignment. Let the order of the Court below be reversed, and the motion there dismissed with costs.