Redman & Rogers v. Resnick

Orders, entered on March. 25, 1963 and August 12, 1963, denying appellant attorneys’ applications to establish a lien upon their clients’ cause of action for personal injuries are unanimously affirmed, with $20 costs .and disbursements to plaintiffs-respondents. In affirming we nevertheless hold, as contended by appellants, that if entitled otherwise to assert their lien it would not be restricted to a recovery upon the action they instituted (Matter of Lourie, 254 App. Div. 555; Morgan v. Drewry, S. A. R. L., 285 App. Div. 1). Appellants do not refute satisfactorily, however, the assertion…