LeGros v. Chain Shirt Shops, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Chain Shirt Shops, Inc., from so much of 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 26th day of February, 1919, as denies its motion to compel Lawrence Cohen, an attorney, to restore to it moneys which he received from a judgment which has since been reversed.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.:
The plaintiff made claim against the defendant for services rendered. He went to Lawrence Cohen, an attorney, to retain him to prosecute the action. Lawrence Cohen stated to .the plaintiff that by reason of his relations with some officers of the ^defendant, he preferred not to prosecute the action himself, but he took the plaintiff to Isidore Cohn, another attorney, and handed over the case to him upon an agreement with Isidore Cohn that, from the proceeds of any recovery, Isidore Cohn was to pay him the sum of $150.
The plaintiff was successful in the Municipal Court and execution…
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- Forstman v. . SchultingNew York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Market Nat. Bk. of N.Y. v. . Pac. Nat. Bk.New York Court of Appeals · 1886
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