Eisemann v. Hazard
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Florence A. Hazard, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 6th day of February, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of March, 1913, denying the defendant’s motion for . a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Hotchkiss, J. :
The plaintiff, an attorney at law, brought this action to recover a balance alleged to be due him for legal services. The answer was a general denial. The defendant is the widow of one Hazard, who, at the time of his death, was a partner and apparently the holder of the major interest in the firm of E. C. Hazard & Co., to which interest defendant has apparently succeeded on the death of her husband. Sometime in August, 1907, the defendant retained plaintiff to represent her interests in the firm, which had become embarrassed and the affairs of which were then in a precarious…
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