Reporter Co. v. Murphy

Appeal from an order of the Special Term, Supreme Court, Otsego County. Plaintiff, a legal printer, sues the defendant, who is a lawyer, for printing a record on appeal. The defendant has brought in the client as a third-party defendant. The third-party defendant moved at Special Term for summary judgment dismissing the third-party complaint. The motion was denied. We think the decision was correctly made. Ordinarily a client, who is an obviously disclosed principal, is responsible to a legal printer for printing ordered by his lawyer in the absence of special arrangement; and if, between the…