Bryon v. Durrie
New York Supreme Court
Appeals from orders. Lavinia B. Bryon, claiming to be entitled to about one-eighth part of certain real and personal estate under the last will and testament of Richard P. Dunn, her grandfather, applied to William H. Sloan, Esq., an attorney and counselor at law, to institute proceedings to ascertain and recover her interest in said estate, and agreed to furnish sufficient money to bear the expenses of the legal proceedings, and that he should be well paid for his services,…
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Appeals from orders. Lavinia B. Bryon, claiming to be entitled to about one-eighth part of certain real and personal estate under the last will and testament of Richard P. Dunn, her grandfather, applied to William H. Sloan, Esq., an attorney and counselor at law, to institute proceedings to ascertain and recover her interest in said estate, and agreed to furnish sufficient money to bear the expenses of the legal proceedings, and that he should be well paid for his services, and repaid all advances he might make. Some timé after suits had been commenced she executed to him the following…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.—Ingalls, J.
[After stating the facts.]—It is obvious to persons who are familiar with such proceedings, that if they are intelligently conducted, much time and attention are required even when free from extraordinary complication. The investigation in regard to title and incumbrances, adjusting the interests of the various parties, which are necessarily involved in an ordinary partition, require care and consume time. . These services must be rendered at the commencement of the action, and in the majority of cases constitute the greater proportion of the labor involved in…
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