Thorn v. Sylvester

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of contract to pay legal fees, the plaintiff’s attorney, Paul A. Martineau, appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order and judgment (one paper) of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Cow-hey, J.), entered April 15, 1996, as, upon granting that branch of the defendant’s motion which was for the imposition of costs and sanctions pursuant to 22 NYCRR part 130, directed him to pay the defendant’s counsel $4,400 in attorneys’ fees and awarded $200 in statutory costs.

Ordered that the order and judgment is modified, on the…