Glenmark, Inc. v. Carity

— Order, entered March 9, 1964, denying a motion made on behalf of plaintiff Glenmark by its proposed attorney for an order of substitution of attorneys unanimously reversed on the law and in the exercise of discretion, without costs to any party, and the motion remanded to Special Term before Mr. Justice Hoestadter, before whom the motion bad been submitted, for further proceedings in consonance with the view expressed below. The right to a substitution should not be confused with the right to discontinue. The first is almost an absolute right (Matter of Lydig, 262 N. Y. 408, 409). The…