Littlefield v. Kearns

This cause involves a counsel fee controversy between a client and his attorneys; the plaintiff-client appeals from the action of the Chancery Division in dismissing his complaint and entering judgment for the defendants-attorneys.

In 1941, the plaintiff Benjamin Littlefield and the legal representatives of the estate of his brother Charles W. Littlefield deceased, engaged the defendants, as attorneys, to institute proceedings on a bond and mortgage executed by William A. Weber. Thereafter, the mortgage was foreclosed and a deficiency judgment in the sum of $10,584.20 was obtained against…