Montrose v. Baggott
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Vallandigham B. Baggott and another, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 4th day of June, 1913, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the same day denying defendants’ motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Stapleton, J.:
Plaintiff was a client of the defendants, who were lawyers. By the judgment from which the appeal is taken he has recovered damages against them. The cause of action alleged was negligence of the lawyers in the discharge of professional employment, causing pecuniary injury to the client. If the cause of action was proved it is certain liability follows. (Byrnes v. Palmer, 18 App. Div. 1; affd., 160 N. Y. 699.) The facts from which the jury were permitted to find negligence are:
*497In May, 1906, the plaintiff, a manufacturer of cloaks and suits, being unable to collect a claim of…
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