HOUSTON v. ORMES

No. 86.

252 U.S. 469 (1920)

HOUSTON, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. v. ORMES, ADMINISTRATOR OF LOCKWOOD.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 19, 1920.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General, with whom Mr. Morgan Beach and Mr. A.F. Myers were on the brief, for appellants:

Miss Mary O'Toole for appellee.

Mr. Chapman W. Maupin, by leave of court, filed a brief as amicus curiae.


MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit in equity, brought by the late Belva A. Lockwood in her lifetime in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to establish an equitable lien for attorney's fees upon a fund of $1,200 in the Treasury of the United States, appropriated by Congress (Act of March 4, 1915, c. 140, 38 Stat. 962, 981) to pay a claim found by the Court of Claims to be due...

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