Fromme v. Union Surety & Guaranty Co.

This is an action to enforce an attorney’s lien. The defendant has answered and the plaintiff demurs to two of the defenses pleaded. The defendant not only undertakes to sustain its answer, but, as it has a right to do, attacks the complaint as not stating facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. It is well settled that a demurrer to an answer searches the whole record for the first fault in pleading that is defective in substance. Baxter v. McDonnell, 154 N. Y. 432. The plaintiff alleges that he is the survivor of a firm of lawyers who were attorneys for the defendant McDonald in an…