Caruso v. Sinistorie

In a proceeding for substitution of attorneys for the plaintiff in a negligence action to recover damages for personal injury, the original attorney for the plaintiff appeals, as limited by his brief, from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, dated October 19, 1962, granting on reargument plaintiff’s motion to substitute another attorney, insofar as such order: (1) directed, in its fifth decretal paragraph, that the original *1075attorney shall have a lien in a dollar amount, based on quantum meruit, upon any recovery in the action; (2) failed to direct, instead, that such attorney…