Thomasson v. Latourette
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Joseph B. Lewis and others from an order, of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 13th day of February, 1900, determining that John J. Thomasson has a lien amounting, with costs, to $486.73 upon a fund in the hands of the sheriff of the county of Richmond, and directing payment thereof, and also from an older of' reference entered in said clerk’s office on the 24th day of…
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Appeal by Joseph B. Lewis and others from an order, of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 13th day of February, 1900, determining that John J. Thomasson has a lien amounting, with costs, to $486.73 upon a fund in the hands of the sheriff of the county of Richmond, and directing payment thereof, and also from an older of' reference entered in said clerk’s office on the 24th day of November, 1900.
1Opinion of the Court
Hibsohberg, J.:
The appeal is from an order of reference, granted ancillary in proceedings for the determination and enforcement of an attorney’s lien for services, and from a final order by which the amount of the lien was ascertained by the court and directed to be paid, with costs, out of a fund in the sheriff’s hands. .
' The petitioner, John J. Thomasson, an attorney of the Supreme Court, was employed by the appellant Joseph B. Lewis to prosecute an action for the collection of a debt against a widow, one Susan A. Latourette. The attorney attached Mrs. Latonrette’s dower interest in…
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