Court Opinion

ID: 5394110
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 10:06:14.377571+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:30:20.406418
License: Public Domain

Order modified by reducing the counsel fee to $2,500 ami, as so modified, affirmed. The amount allowed is excessive. Present — Dore, J. P., Cohn, Callahan, Van Voorhis and Breitel, JJ.; Van Voorhis and Breitel, JJ., dissent and vote to deny the motion for counsel fee on the grounds (1) that plaintiff does not need a counsel fee in order to prosecute the action, in view of the fact that defendant has already established a trust fund of $300,000 for her benefit, and plaintiff possesses other assets in addition, and (2) that she has not shown sufficient probability of success. [Bee post, p. 882.]