Taylor

This action was brought by plaintiff as executrix of the estate of, Thomas Edwin Wright, deceased, to recover the sum of six hundred dollars alleged to have been collected by the defendants as money belonging to the estate of plaintiff’s testator and for the use and benefit of said estate. By the answer of the defendants it was set up that they as attorneys at law had, under an express employment therefor, performed legal services for and on behalf of decedent, which included the collection of money on a judgment, amounting to $901.75; that out of this money they were entitled to retain the reasonable value of their services, after deducting which, it was alleged they forwarded a check for the difference to the executrix who accepted the same in full satisfaction of all claims of the estate against the defendants. The appeal is taken from a judgment entered in favor of defendants and is presented on the judgment-roll alone.

The findings of fact set forth the details of the employment by decedent of the defendants in their capacity as attorneys •at law and the collection of the money on the judgment in the amount of $901,75, and determined that defendants held a lien upon the…