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Katzenberg v. Alex Smith

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department
Mar 25, 1927
129 Misc. 218 (N.Y. App. Term 1927)

Opinion

March 25, 1927.

Appeal from the Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Second District.

Samuel Ellerstein, for the appellants.

Herman Koenigsberg, for the respondent.


The plaintiff's attorney had authority to do all acts incidental to the prosecution and management of the action, and this included the right to move for a verdict by direction of the court in favor of the attorney's client, and it being within the sphere of his general authority to so move as incident to the manner of procedure, his client, the plaintiff, was bound by his attorney's action. Moreover such motion having been made in open court in the presence and hearing of the plaintiff, and the plaintiff having expressed no dissent from what was done, or disapproval, will be presumed to have consented thereto and to have authorized in fact what his attorney did. He cannot be now heard to disaffirm it.

Order reversed, with ten dollars costs, motion denied, and verdict reinstated.

All concur; present, LYDON, LEVY and CRAIN, JJ.


Summaries of

Katzenberg v. Alex Smith

Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department
Mar 25, 1927
129 Misc. 218 (N.Y. App. Term 1927)
Case details for

Katzenberg v. Alex Smith

Case Details

Full title:SAMUEL KATZENBERG, Respondent, v. ALEX SATZ, Also Known as ALEX SMITH and…

Court:Supreme Court, Appellate Term, First Department

Date published: Mar 25, 1927

Citations

129 Misc. 218 (N.Y. App. Term 1927)
221 N.Y.S. 105

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