Sanford v. Bronson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Eliza F. Bronson and others, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Orange on the 24th day of February, 1903, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 4th day of March, 1903, denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial made upoú the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The plaintiff is a lawyer and brings this action to recover for professional services rendered to, or in behalf of, the defendants in an effort to drain certain swamp or bog lands in the towns of Chester *836and' Blooming Grove in Orange county, under the provisions of chapter 384 of the Laws of 1895. This .iyas an act enacted in pursuance of the provisions of section 7 of article 1 of the Constitution of this State, as amended in 1894, and the evidence warrants a -finding that the defendants, acting through a committee of three of their number, -consulted the plaintiff in May,-1895,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Matter of TuthillNew York Court of Appeals · 1900
- In re TuthillAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899