DOMROE v. KESSLER


16 A.D.2d 791 (1962)

Marilyn Domroe, Respondent, v. Louis Kessler et al., Defendants, and Solomon B. Terkeltoub, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

May 7, 1962


As so modified, order, insofar as appealed from, affirmed, without costs.

In our opinion, the award of $1,000 was inadequate. Under all the circumstances here, we believe that appellant's fee, in accordance with the statutory mandate of "suitable" compensation (Judiciary Law, § 474), should have been fixed more nearly at the usual and customary level approximating one third of the gross recovery (cf. Liss v. McCrory...

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