Clinch v. Henck
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Frances Naylor Henck, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 4th day of January, 1900, granting the plaintiff’s motion for a compulsory reference of the issues in the action.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
This is an appeal from an order granting a compulsory reference of this action on the ground that the trial of the issues necessarily involved the examination of a long account. The action was brought to recover an amount claimed to be due for various services of the plaintiff as an attorney and counselor at law. A bill of particulars of the claim was served, from an examination of which it appears that there are at least twenty different subjects of employment embraced in the service claimed to have been rendered by the plaintiff to the defendant and many items of disbursements…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stein v. New York News Publishing Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
3Cited by3 opinions
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