Case ID: ny-super-ct_22/html/0642-01.html
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John Purchase, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. George F. Bellows, Defendant and Appellant.
    In this case it was decided that the Court may deny a motion to set off, against a judgment, the costs of an appeal from an order on a summary application after judgment, in order to protect the attorney’s claim to a lien on the costs of such proceeding after judgment, although the case be one where a set-off might be enforced by action.
    Heard, in General Term, before Bosworth, Ch. J., and Barbour and Monell, J. J.,
    April 25, 1863;
    decided, May 30, 1863.
    See the points decided, in the index to this volume, under the titles, “ Practice, — Motion, — Set-off.” .
   And see the motion and appeal reported at length, with the opinion of the Court, at General Term, in 16 Abbotts’ Pr., 105.