Foody v. County of Rockland

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 in the nature of mandamus to compel the County of Rockland to allow the petitioner to substitute the law firm of Lysaght, Lysaght & Kramer, P. C., as his counsel in an action entitled Bryant v Foody, Index No. 8238/96, pending in the Supreme Court, Rockland County, and directing the County of Rockland to pay that firm’s reasonable legal fees and disbursements, the appeal is from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Bergerman, J.), entered August 11, 1997, which granted the petition.

Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, with…