In re Dailey, Bell & Crane
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by John M. Wellbrock, an attorney for the plaintiff in an action in the Supreme Court, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Queens County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 17th day of June, 1901, appointing a referee to take proof of the facts upon a summary application by Abram H. Dailey, as counsel in said action, to compel repayment of disbursements made therein.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
The appellant was the attorney of record for the plaintiff in an action brought to recover damages occasioned by negligence. He was to receive twenty-five per cent of the recovery. He employed the respondent Abram H. Dailey to act as counsel in the case, and engaged to pay him fifteen per cent of the recovery from his own allowance. The case was twice tried, the first jury disagreeing, and the verdict of the second being set aside. On appeal, the contro versy was thereafter compromised, and the sum of $21,250 was paid to the attorney in settlement. He paid the counsel the…
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