Case ID: ad_281/html/0811-05.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Fay A. Lewis, Respondent, v. Joseph Lewis, Appellant.
   Order modified by reducing the counsel fee to $2,500 ami, as so modified, affirmed. The amount allowed is excessive. Present — Dore, J. P., Cohn, Callahan, Van Voorhis and Breitel, JJ.; Van Voorhis and Breitel, JJ., dissent and vote to deny the motion for counsel fee on the grounds (1) that plaintiff does not need a counsel fee in order to prosecute the action, in view of the fact that defendant has already established a trust fund of $300,000 for her benefit, and plaintiff possesses other assets in addition, and (2) that she has not shown sufficient probability of success. [Bee post, p. 882.]