Order reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, without costs or disbursements and matter remitted to Special Term for a hearing to fix the amount of the outgoing attorneys' lien, if any, and to condition the turnover upon payment of the sum thereby found to be due from plaintiff to her former attorneys or the posting of security therefor. The hearing shall proceed expeditiously.
Plaintiff's former attorneys have a common-law retaining lien on the papers in their...
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