Case Name: Long Island Trust Company, Respondent, v. Westbury Donuts, Inc., Defendant, and Gloria Morrison et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1983-05-16
Citations: 94 A.D.2d 738
Docket Number: 
Parties: Long Island Trust Company, Respondent, v Westbury Donuts, Inc., Defendant, and Gloria Morrison et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 94
Pages: 738–738

Head Matter:
Long Island Trust Company, Respondent, v Westbury Donuts, Inc., Defendant, and Gloria Morrison et al., Appellants.

Opinion:
— In an action to recover on a promissory note, defendants Gloria Morrison, Bapajo, Ltd., and Donut Queen, Ltd., appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Velsor, J.), dated June 14, 1982, as granted plaintiff a counsel fee in the sum of $12,500. Judgment modified, on the facts and as an exercise of discretion, by reducing the amount awarded as a counsel fee therein to $9,000. As so modified, judgment affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements. The award of counsel fees was excessive to the extent indicated. Damiani, J. P., Mangano, Gibbons and Gulotta, JJ., concur.