Hoffstaetter v. Schinkel
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Lillian E. Hoffstaetter, 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 23d day of April, 1915, denying her motion to vacate and set aside a notice of lien.
1Opinion of the Court
Hotchkiss, J.:
The plaintiff Hoffstaetter, by the respondent, Mr. Finkelstein, as her attorney, brought this action against Schinkel and others as defendants. At a certain stage of the action, and before judgment, the respondent consented to the substitution of another attorney in his place and stead, and the action was by this new attorney successfully prosecuted to judgment. On or about March 8, 1915, the respondent served on the defendants a paper entitled in this action and in which he gave notice that he claimed a lien “against the moneys due” to the plaintiff under the judgment to the…
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