Van Schaick v. Mackin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Eugene Van Schaick, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 17th day of June, 1908, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Hew York Special Term, overruling the plaintiff’s demurrer to a counterclaim contained in the answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The plaintiff is an attorney and counselor at law and brings this action to recover for professional services rendered to the Real Estate Owners’ Fire Insurance Company. After the commencement of the action a receiver was appointed for the company and he was duly substituted as defendant. The circumstances under which the receiver was appointed are not revealed by the record now before the court, nor does it appear that the company was insolvent. The demurrer is upon the ground that the alleged defense and counterclaim to which it is interposed is insufficient in law upon the…
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