In re Sigmund Contracting Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Agostino H. Montegriffo, Jr., from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county, of Kings on the 14th day of June, 1912, appointing a referee to hear and determine the issue's herein.
1Opinion of the Court
Rich, J.:
Upon the settlement of a controversy between the various contractors engaged in the erection of a building and the owner, the respondent, the Sigmund Contracting Company, paid to the appellant, an attorney at law, acting for the owner and Bernard Zucker, $250, which he undertook to pay to Zucker, to be received in satisfaction of all claims. Zucker repudiated the settlement, and declined to receive the money. Subsequently this proceeding was instituted to compel the appellant to turn the money over to this respondent, and a dispute having arisen as to the title to the money, the…
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