59 N.Y.S. 55 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1899
This proceeding was commenced for an accounting and discharge of the substituted trustees, Emma E. Cattus and Aymar Embury, under a deed óf trust executed by one Augustus Embury on the 11th 'of May, 1874. On the 15th of July, 1898, a decree' was entered settling the account of the trustees and providing for the distribution of the estate and for the cancellation of khe bond upon compliance with the terms o’f the decree.' Thereafter said trustees, having claimed to have made a distribution of the trust estate as directed by the decree, their attorneys drew an order discharging and releasing them from any and all liability up to and including the matters involved in the accounting, and asking for the can celia
We utterly fail to see how such relief can be granted in this proceeding. There was no relation of attorney and client existing between Mr. Ellison and Mr. Force Parker, nor was Ellison the attorney for the substituted trustees. No rights of a client were being attempted to be enforced. It was simply, if the claim of the moving party is correct, a wrongful obtaining of money by one attorney from another. Whatever wrongs may have been committed against the moving party must be redressed in the usual forum.
The order should be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disburse- • ments, and the motion denied.
Patterson, O’Brien, Ingraham and McLaughlin, JJ., concurred.
Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied.