REALTY EQUITIES CORP. v. GEROSA


30 Misc.2d 481 (1960)

Realty Equities Corporation of New York et al., Plaintiffs, v. Lawrence E. Gerosa, as Comptroller of the City of New York, et al., Defendants.

Supreme Court, Special Term, New York County.

October 28, 1960


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Strasser, Spiegelberg, Fried & Frank for themselves. Koenig & Bachner (Robert L. Bachner of counsel), for Glen Oaks Shopping Center, Inc. Lynton & Saslow (Bernard A. Saslow and Daniel A. Gutterman of counsel), for Jay R. Braus and another. Rivkin & Rosen (Louis Rivkin and Irwin Reicher of counsel), for Nivelle Corporation and another. Edward J. Mallin for 434-6th Ave. Corp. Weinberg & Weinberg (Isaac Weinberg of counsel), for William Gottfried. Herbert W. Aronson for 2007 Davidson Avenue, Inc., and others. Sidney Schwamm for 14 Yorktown Corp. and others. Alfred Wohl for Tonkin & Friedman and others. Frank Reiter, Nathan Frankel and Frank Reiter for New California Corp. Viscardi & Viscardi (Merritt T. Viscardi of counsel), for Salvatore J. Ragone. Kohn & Granirer for Dessner Realty Company. Abraham Lehman & Henry C. Lehman for Louis Davis and others, claimants. Golenbock & Barell (Arnold Raynor of counsel), for Sunvic Realty, Inc., appearing specially. Julius Goldstein for Philip Bagdan and others. David Stein (Buchwald, Nadel & Lippman of counsel), for plaintiffs. Charles H. Tenney, Corporation Counsel (Stanley Buchsbaum, Morris L. Heath, Jacob Friedes and Stephen L. Bernstein of counsel), for defendants. Kelley, Drye, Newhall & Maginnes (W. Frederick Knecht and B. Harrison Frankel of counsel), for Hanover Bank appearing specially. Sherman & Sterling & Wright (Gilson B. Gray, III, of counsel), for Beatrice G. Manice and others appearing specially. Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn (Larry M. Lavinsky of counsel), for Goldsmith Enterprises, Inc., and others. McLaughlin & Stern (William Jay Lippman of counsel), for 105 Arden Street Corp. and others. Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Hadley for Inch Corporation. Gerald E. Dwyer and Jerome H. Shapiro for New York Central Railroad Company and others. Dulon & Roe (Jerome L. Grometstein of counsel), for Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and others. Gilbert & Gilbert (Joseph Jay and Edward M. Lang of counsel), for 165 West 57th Street Corp. and another appearing specially. Gifford, Woody, Carter & Hays (Walter S. Long, Jr., and Edmund S. Purves of counsel), for S. E. Massengill Co., Inc. Benjamin A. Hartstein and Marcus Klein for Elizabeth Hartstein.


JACOB MARKOWITZ, J.

This is an application by plaintiffs and their attorney for an order decreeing that they possess a lien for the fair value of certain legal services rendered by said attorney, and for disbursements incurred, upon all payments of the Real Property Transfer Tax made to the defendants under protest in connection with real estate transactions closed

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