Simon v. Burgess
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Henrietta Simon, from.a judgment' of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office- of the clerk of the county of New York on the 28th day of February, 1911, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term, dismissing the complaint.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
This is a suit in equity to have it adjudged that the plaintiff has a lien upon certain real' property in the borough of Manhattan, New York, described in a letter written by William H. Burgess to Messrs. Rose & Putzel, a firm of attorneys and counselors at law, on the 15th day of July, 1903, for the sum of $25,000, and that in default of payment of said sum to her, with interest, the premises be sold, and that the proceeds, over and above the sum of $690,000, be applied, so far as necessary, in satisfaction of her lien, and in the event that a ‘ sale cannot be had that the…
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