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William Rand, Respondent, v. City of New York, Appellant.
    
      Attorney-General — New York city — liability of city for services of Special Deputy Attorney-General designated to conduct investigations before grand jury in New York county.
    
    
      Rand v. City of New York, 212 App. Div. 870, affirmed.
    (Argued October 13, 1925;
    decided October 27, 1925.)
    Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered March 13, 1925, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict. The action was to recover for legal services as Special Deputy Attorney-General designated by the Attorney-General to act under several requisitions of the Governor superseding the district attorney in the conduct of certain investigations before a grand jury in the county of New York pursuant to section 62 of the Executive Law which provides that compensation of Deputies Attorney-General so employed shall be a county charge.
    
      George P. Nicholson, Corporation Counsel (Charles Horowitz of counsel), for appellant.
    
      Clarence J. Shearn for respondent.
   Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: His cock, Ch. J., Cardozo, Pound, McLaughlin, Crane, Andrews and Lehman, JJ.