Case ID: ny-super-ct_44/html/0581-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Van Vorst, J;,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WILLIAM F. BONYNGE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, et al., Defendants and Respondents.
    Stenographers.—Attorneys’ liability f.or services of.
    This action was brought by the plaintiff, a stenographer, to recover the value of services alleged to have been rendered by him at defendant’s request, &c., in taking minutes of testimony, &c., in certain legal proceedings in which defendant appeared as attorney for one of the patties thereto.
    
      Held, that the defendant being the agent of a known principal, did , not incur a personal liability by simply requesting the performance of such a service for his client, and also that there wás no evidence in the case of an agreement on his part to be liable therefor, nor anything from which it could be safely said that it was the intention of the parties that the defendants should be so responsible (Bonynge ». Waterbury, 12 Run, 534 ; and Sheriden a. Genet, Id. 660, followed).
    Before Van Vorst and Speir, JJ.
    
      Decided March 3, 1879.
    Appeal from judgment dismissing the complaint.
    
      BusJinell & Albright, attorneys, and 8. Jones, of counsel, for plaintiff and appellant.
    
      Charles F. Bauerdorf, for defendant and respondent.
   Van Vorst, J;,

wrote for affirmance, with costs, holding the proposition laid down in the head-note.

Speir, J., concurred.