Case Name: Knickerbocker Investment Company, Plaintiff, v. Foster M. Voorhees, William Sherer and Edward C. Stokes, Individually and as Voting Trustees of the Stock of the Bankers' Life Insurance Company, and the Bankers' Life Insurance Company, Defendants; In the Matter of the Application of Davies, Stone & Auerbach, the Defendants' Attorneys, Respondents, to Have Their Lien for Their Fees and Disbursements Determined and Enforced; William Sherer and the Bankers' Life Insurance Company, Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1907-10-25
Citations: 121 A.D. 690
Docket Number: 
Parties: Knickerbocker Investment Company, Plaintiff, v. Foster M. Voorhees, William Sherer and Edward C. Stokes, Individually and as Voting Trustees of the Stock of the Bankers’ Life Insurance Company, and the Bankers’ Life Insurance Company, Defendants; In the Matter of the Application of Davies, Stone & Auerbach, the Defendants’ Attorneys, Respondents, to Have Their Lien for Their Fees and Disbursements Determined and Enforced; William Sherer and the Bankers’ Life Insurance Company, Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 121
Pages: 690–691

Head Matter:
Knickerbocker Investment Company, Plaintiff, v. Foster M. Voorhees, William Sherer and Edward C. Stokes, Individually and as Voting Trustees of the Stock of the Bankers’ Life Insurance Company, and the Bankers’ Life Insurance Company, Defendants; In the Matter of the Application of Davies, Stone & Auerbach, the Defendants’ Attorneys, Respondents, to Have Their Lien for Their Fees and Disbursements Determined and Enforced; William Sherer and the Bankers’ Life Insurance Company, Appellants.
First Department,
October 25, 1907.
Attorney—proceedings to determine lien—waiver of defect of parties.
Oh a proceeding to determine an attorney’s lien a defendant who, knowing that ' all his codefendants are not before the court, does not-oppose the order of reference on .that- ground or raise the objection before the referee, waives the defect, and the proceeding, will not be vacated.
Separate appeals by William Sherer and the Bankers’ Life Insurance Company, two of the defendants in the abóve entitled action, from, an order of- the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office' of the clerk of the county of New York on the 14th day of May, 19.07, as resettled by an order entered on the 28th day of May, 1907, denying' a motion to vacate and set aside, all the proceedings theretofore had in the action. . ,
Eugene Van Schaick, for the appellant Bankers’ Life Insurance Company.
Joseph A. Keenan, for the appellant William Sherer.
Julian C. Harrison, for the respondents.

Opinion:
Ingraham, J.:
I do..not see that the appellants could on this motion take, advantage of the objection that all of the parties to the special proceeding were not before the court. In the affidavit upon which, the motion was made, Sherer swears that he did not know until a motion was made on behalf of Yoorhees to vacate the order of reference that Yoorhees had not been properly made a party to this proceeding. A copy of the order of May 24, 1906, had been served upon him, and he knew of thé method for the service of the order directed, and if he had wished to take the objection that all parties were not before the court, he should, have taken it on the return of that order, and not having done so, it is waived. So far as appears, the only objection that was taken before the referee was that the order was'unconstitutional and 'void. The specific objection that there was a defect of parties to the special proceeding was not taken either before the court at Special Term on. the return of the order to show cause or before the referee. It also appears that the order of May 24, 1906, ivas affirmed by. this court. (114 App. Div. 912.)
The question as to what, if any, final order should be entered in this proceeding can be raised upon the motion to confirm the referee's report.
The order should be affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.
Patterson, P. J., Laughlin, Clarke and Houghton, JJ., concurred.
Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.