Hoff v. Robert H. Reid & Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Robert H. Reid & Company, 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 5th day of October, 1905, referring the issues in the above-entitled action to a-referee. •
1Opinion of the Court
O’Brien, P. J.:
The action is brought by an. attorney against his client to recover $10,736.68, the alleged.value of his services in conducting various litigations and in attending to other legal -matters. Attached to the complaint is a schedule setting forth .fifty-six different actions, proceedings 'and matters in-which the services were rendered, including the incorporation of a company, the acquisition of a site for the erection of its plant, the preparation of contracts, the conduct of over thirty actions, and of other transactions arising in-the course of defendant’s business. . . '
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