Camp v. Reeves

Dowling, J.:

This is an action at law which was commenced on May 2, 1922, to recover from the appellants the sum of $27,167.88, the amount paid by plaintiff upon a decree against him as sole surviving executor in the action brought against him and others by Alva E. Belmont, individually and as one of the sole surviving trustees under the last will and testament of Armide Vogel Smith, deceased, in the Supreme Court, New York county, which said decree was entered October 27, 1921.

The basis of the present action is the failure of appellants, as attorneys of plaintiff's testatrix and of her…