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38 A.D. 439

Walton v. Collins

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · decided 1899-07-01

Motion by the plaintiff, William P. Walton, as president of the board of officers of the Eleventh Regiment of the National Guard of the State of New York, a voluntary association composed of more than seven members, for a reargument of an appeal taken by the defendant from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 20th day of December, 1897, upon the decision of the court,…

Decided 1899-07-01

Per Curiam :

¶1do not regard this action as being one for the distribution of the fund, but to compel the old trustee to pay over to the new one the fund to which the latter is entitled. We think that in such an action it is not proper that the judgment should go further than to-allow statutory costs to any of the parties or the attorneys. Whatever charge the attorneys or counsel for the plaintiff may have for their legal services rendered for the benefit of the fund, the payment of such allowance must be obtained by an application to the court in a proceeding directly instituted for that purpose, or by agreement with the trustee. In case the latter course is taken, the propriety of the amount paid, of course, will be subject to review in the matter of the administration of this trust.

¶2Motion for reargument denied.

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