In re the City of New York Relative to Acquiring Title
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Frank Dickerson 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 Queens on the 25th day of March, 1913, denying his motion for an order to compel the payment of an award.
1Opinion of the Court
Stapleton, J.:
The appellant moved, under section 1001 of the Greater New York charter (Laws of 1901, chap. 466, as amd. by Laws of 1906, chap. 658), for an order directing the comptroller of the city of New York to pay an award of $500 made to him in the above-entitled proceeding. The respondent intervened and claimed an attorney’s lien attaching to the award.
The respondent obtained the order from which the appeal is taken, the effect of which order was to postpone the payment *588of the award, concededly the property of the appellant, until the reasonable value of the respondent’s services…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In Re Niagara, Lockport & Ontario Power Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1911
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