Fine v. Lyons
Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York
Appeal from City Court of New York, Special Term. Action by Samuel Fine against Mary Lyons. From an order of the City Court of the City of New York, denying the defendant’s motion to vacate a warrant of attachment, defendant appeals. Reversed, and motion to vacate the attachment granted.
1Opinion of the CourtPage, J.
The action is brought to recover the reasonable value of services alleged to have been rendered to the defendant by the plaintiff as attorney. The damages are therefore unliquidated. The attachment sought to be vacated was granted upon the complaint and affidavits setting forth the cause of action; but.the only statements contained therein which have any bearing upon the amount of damages are to the effect that between certain dates Crosby & Fine rendered services to the defendant as attorneys and counselors at law, at her request and upon her retainer, which were “of the reasonable value of…
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