Helmsley v. Anderson Clayton & Co.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County, entered December 15, 1976, after bench trial, is unanimously modified, on the law, to the extent of vacating so much of the judgment as awards attorneys’ fee of $35,000 (together with applicable interest), and remanding the attorneys’ fees portion of the case for trial and determination and award to plaintiff of the value of attorneys’ services reasonably necessary and rendered in connection with efforts to collect rent for the period July 1, 1974 to May 31, 1975, and severing the action accordingly, and the judgment is otherwise affirmed, without…