Case ID: misc_65/html/0177-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Seabury, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Matter of Supplementary Proceedings of Charles J. Baker, Judgment Creditor, Meyer Greenberg, Appellant, v. Moses Blum, Judgment Debtor, Respondent.
    (Supreme Court, Appellate Term,
    November, 1909.)
    Attorney and client — The vocation — Liability for costs — Improper conduct.
    Upon vacating an order for the examination of the judgment debtor in proceedings supplementary to execution, the court has no authority to impose costs against the attorney for the judgment creditor personally.
    Appeal from an order of the City Court of the city of Mew York, vacating and dismissing a second order for the examination of the judgment debtor, with costs to be paid by the attorney for the judgment creditor to the judgment debtor.
    Meyer Greenberg (Henry Greenberg, of counsel), for appellant in person.
    Benjamin Bulmer, for respondent.
   Seabury, J.

The order appealed from vacates an order for the examination of the judgment debtor in proceedings supplementary to execution, with twenty dollars costs to be paid personally by the attorney for the judgment creditor.

The court was without authority to impose costs against the attorney personally.

The order is modified by striking out the provision directing the attorney for the judgment creditor to pay twenty dollars costs and, as modified, is affirmed, without costs.

Gildersleeve and Lehman, JJ., concur.

Order modified, and, as modified, affirmed, without costs.