Seiferd v. Mulligan
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William G. Mulligan, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 14th day of May, 1898, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, overruling the said defend-, ant’s demurrer to the plaintiff’s amended complaint, and also (as stated in the notice of appeal) from the order directing said judgment to be entered.
1Opinion of the Court
Ingraham, J.:
This appellant demurred to the amended complaint upon the ground that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action against him, and from the judgment overruling that demurrer he appeals. The complaint alleges that the defendants, representing themselves to be attorneys and counselors at law and duly admitted and practicing as partners in the courts of this State^ were retained and employed by the plaintiff in their professional capacity and acted for the plaintiff as such, with reference to, the transaction *35set forth in the complaint, and that prior to…
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