18 A.D.2d 774 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1962
Order unanimously reversed, with $25 costs and disbursements and motion granted, without costs. Memorandum: The judgment creditor, wife of the judgment debtor, moved !for an order directing the third-party insurance company to pay the proceeds of a settlement agreed upon with the judgment debtor to the judgment creditor, after deduction of attorney’s fees and disbursements. Judgment creditor recovered a judgment in the sum of $1,000 for arrearages due for the support and maintenance of infant children of the marriage of the parties and duly docketed the judgment. When judgment creditor learned of the negligence| action brought by the judgment debtor, she served a third-party order in supplementary proceedings upon the insurance company and the attorney for the judgment debtor. This service was made prior to the settlement of the judgment debtor’s action. The relief sought by the judgment creditor is opposed on the grounds that at the time judgment