Matter of Snyder
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered May 28, 1907, which reversed an order of Special Term appointing a referee to determine the value of services rendered by appellants as attorneys for the petitioner in the case of Snyder v. De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company and directed the disposition of certain moneys theretofore paid into court on the discontinuance of that action.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered May 28, 1907, which reversed an order of Special Term appointing a referee to determine the value of services rendered by appellants as attorneys for the petitioner in the case of Snyder v. De Forest Wireless Telegraph Company and directed the disposition of certain moneys theretofore paid into court on the discontinuance of that action. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The dogma of the Appellate Division that an attorney’s lien merely protects him in case the…
1Opinion of the CourtHiscock, J.
The appellants, who are practicing attorneys, made a written agreement with the respondent for the prosecution by them in his behalf of litigation against various jiarties under a plan of contingent compensation. Said agreement ' amongst other things originally provided that the attorneys should receive for their services one-third of the proceeds of said litigation or the proceeds of the sale of certain stock, and nothing else; also that neither party to the agreement should “ settle any of said litigations without the consent of each of the other parties.” Subsequently this agreement was…
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