Emerson v. Emerson

In a proceeding for permission to petitioner to prosecute as a poor person an action for divorce (CPLR 1101, 1102) and for related relief, including assignment of counsel, petitioner appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, County of Nassau, entered May 15, 1969, which denied the application. Order reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs, and application granted; John C. Schaeffer, Jr. (of Legal Aid Society of Nassau County, Civil Division), having consented to act as petitioner’s attorney in such divorce action without compensation, except as to statutory costs, is herewith…