28 Misc. 548 | N.Y. App. Term. | 1899
Both parties are lawyers. The dispute between them is two-fold, turning upon the value of certain services and. as to who was bound to pay for them. By the testimony of both it appears that the defendant presented to the plaintiff a proposed certificate, to be made by him, that a notarial certificate given by the defendant was issued according to the laws of another State;that the corporation therein named was duly organized under the laws of that State, and that the corporation was able to transact business in this State, the signature to which certificate was to be attested by the Consul-General in the city of New York of the German Empire. The plaintiff, whose certificate was thus sought because of his relation as legal adviser to the German Consulate-General and of the esteem in which he was held abroad in such matters, advised the defendant that the paper was not, in his opinion, in proper form, and also that he could not sign such a certificate without informing himself or being informed of both the law and the facts. After procuring this information, in part through the defendant, the plaintiff made out the certificate, which was accepted, and charged as fee therefor twenty-five dollars. About the suitableness of this amount serious question is not to be entertained upon the evidence, although two lawyers testified
The judgment should be affirmed, with costs to the respondent.
Freedman, P. J., and Leventritt, J., concur.
Judgment affirmed, with costs to respondent.