Lai Ling Cheng v. Modansky Leasing Co.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiffs’ successor attorneys, Sullivan & Liapakis, P.C., appeal on the ground of excessiveness, and the plaintiffs’ prior attorney, Edward Murtaugh, cross-appeals on the ground of inadequacy, from an order and judgment (one paper) of the Supreme Court, Dutchess County (Rosenblatt, J.), dated July 15, 1986, which, after a hearing, awarded Murtaugh, the attorney who represented the plaintiffs in this matter prior to the commencement of the lawsuit, the principal sum of $108,000, representing 20% of the total attorney’s fee in the…