Dunn v. State

Appeal by appellants, John F. Doyle, James G. Heffernan and Joseph J. Casey, from an order of the Court of Claims determining and fixing the amount of an attorney’s charging lien, in favor of petitioner-respondent, upon the proceeds of the compromise of a judgment obtained in the Court of Claims against the State of New York and in favor of claimant-administratrix. The undisputed evidence of the facts and circumstances which led to petitioner-respondent’s withdrawal from his client’s cause in the Court of Claims, and, at her request, his procurement of the substitution of other attorneys who…