Lamprecht v. Bien
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Motior by the plaintiff, George H. Lamprecht, Jr., for a new trial upon a case containing exceptions, ordered to be heard at the Appellate Division in the first instance, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term held in November, 1907.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
This action was brought to recover damages against the defendant, an attorney at law, for his negligence in prosecuting an action at law on behalf of the plaintiff by reason whereof plaintiff had been deprived of the means of recovering and collecting his said demand. Upon the trial the plaintiff attempted to prove that he had a cause of action in the original case which the defendant had undertaken to prosecute for him, and but for the defendant’s negligence would have recovered a judgment therein for a substantial amount. The trial court excluded the evidence offered to sustain…
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