Browne v. West
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant West, through his committee, Delaney, from part of an order, entered in the Saratoga county clerk’s office on the 9th day of May, 1910, confirming the report of a referee.
1Dissent
Betts, J. (dissenting):
In this action Mrs. Walter West of the village of Ballston Spa, Saratoga county, IT. Y., went to Butland, Vt., and consulted with the plaintiff, a lawyer and a stranger to her. He gave her certain advice on that and other occasions. Sometime thereafter an action was brought for a separation by Mrs. West against the defendant Walter S. West, by Senator Edgar T. Brackett, respondent’s attorney here. The separation action was changed by an amendment into an action for absolute divorce which was obtained, and in that action §1,500 was allowed for counsel fee and §5,000…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Naumer v. GrayAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
- Naumer v. GrayAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1899
- McQuhae v. ReyNew York Court of Common Pleas · 1893
- Damman v. BancroftAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1904
- Langbein v. SchneiderUnited States District Court · 1891
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