Farrell v. Farrell

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County, entered July 6, 1976, unanimously modified, in the interest of justice and exercise of discretion, to vacate that portion thereof which denied defendant-appellant’s application for assignment of counsel to defend plaintiff-respondent’s suit for divorce and to remand with a direction that Special Term so appoint counsel without fee, and otherwise affirmed, without costs and without disbursements. The application was to open defendant husband’s default, to allow him to proceed as a poor person, and to assign counsel whose fee would come from public funds.…