Case ID: ny-sup-ct_9/html/0670-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SILAS J. OWEN, Appellant, v. MARY JANE GRIFFIN, Respondent.
    
      Ma/nied woman — retainer of attorney by—when liable for services performed by.
    
    The plaintiff was employed, as an attorney, by the defendant to prosecute an action for a limited divorce against her husband, and to obtain alimony and support for herself and her child, and also tp set.aside an ante-nuptial agreement made by her with her husband. The suits were settled by the defendant, in violation of an agreement made with the plaintiff, and without his assent; $4,000 being placed in the hands of a trustee for the support of the defendant and her child. In an action brought by the plaintiff to recover for the seryices ' rendered in these suits, held, that the services of the plaintiff were rendered in . creating ,a separate estate for the benefit of the defendant, and that he was entitled to recover. :
    Appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendant, entered upon the report of a referee.
    
      Silas J. Owen, for the appellant.
    
      C. Frost, for the respondent.
   Opinion by Barnard, P. J.

Present — Barnard, P. J., Tappen and Talcott, JJ. ‘

Judgment reversed and new trial ordered, costs to abide event,