Cleveland v. Cromwell
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Wilson A. Cleveland, from , a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 30th day of June, 1902, upon the dismissal of the complaint by direction of the court after a trial at the Kings County Trial Term.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
This action was brought tó recover damages alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff in consequence of the negligence, lack of skill and legal knowledge of the defendant, an attorney at law, in the conduct and management of a criminal action, as a result of which it is alleged the plaintiff suffered an imprisonment of three months and five days in the Kings County Penitentiary.
The plaintiff was indicted on December 7, 1896, for the crime of grand larceny in the second degree, charged to have been committed by obtaining from one George L. Stanley, on or about the 18th day- of…
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