Prentice v. Huff
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Eunice Eleanor Huff and another, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 21st day of September, 1904, granting the plaintiffs’ motion for an order of reference.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The jfiaintiffs are a firm of lawyers and bring this action for the purpose of recovering a sum claimed to be due for professional services. A demurrer was interposed to the complaint upon the ground of a misjoinder of causes of action. The Special Term overruled the demurrer, holding that the complaint stated a single cause of action against both defendants, and from that decision no appeal was taken. Thereafter the defendant Eunice E. Huff served an answer containing, first, a general denial; second, the Statute of Frauds; third, misjoinder of causes of action, fourth, a…
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