Case Name: Michigan Avenue National Bank, Respondent, v. Abe Zion, Appellant, and Siegfried Sonneberg et al., Defendants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1973-11-20
Citations: 43 A.D.2d 537
Docket Number: 
Parties: Michigan Avenue National Bank, Respondent, v. Abe Zion, Appellant, and Siegfried Sonneberg et al., Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 43
Pages: 537–538

Head Matter:
Michigan Avenue National Bank, Respondent, v. Abe Zion, Appellant, and Siegfried Sonneberg et al., Defendants.

Opinion:
Order, Supreme Court, New York County, entered March 21, 1972, and judgment of said court entered thereon on March 23, 1972, unanimously modified, on the law, so as to delete therefrom the direction that plaintiff recover the sum of $2,350 as counsel fees and as thus modified, affirmed, without costs and without disbursements. Order of said court entered on' March 21, 1973, denying appellant's motion for reconsideration or reargument, unanimously affirmed, without costs and without disbursements. Appellant, in his promissory note, authorizes "any attorney to confess judgment * ® * for such amount as may appear unpaid thereon, together with costs and reasonable attorneys' fees ". Since the note does not provide for the awarding of counsel fees except in the limited circumstances of a confession, not here applicable, plaintiff is not entitled to recover attorneys' fees. (See Avalon Constr. Corp. v. Kirch Holding Go., 256 1ST. Y. 137, 145; Dunlcel v. McDonald, 272 App. Div. 267, 272, affd. 298 N. Y. 586.) Concur — Nunez, J. P., Murphy, Lane, Tilzer and Capozzoli, JJ.