Chase Manhattan Bank v. Bekerus

In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the defendant Zorka I. Bekerus appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Wood, J.), dated March 10, 1999, which, after a non-jury trial, is in favor of the plaintiff and against her in the principal sum of $310,295.23, including an award of an attorney’s fee in the sum of $68,837.30.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the facts and as a matter of discretion, by deleting the provision thereof awarding the plaintiff an attorney’s fee in the sum of $68,837.30; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed, without costs or…