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DAUS v. NUSSBERGER

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jan 1, 1898
25 App. Div. 185 (N.Y. App. Div. 1898)

Opinion

January Term, 1898.

F. Barker, for the appellant.

L.W. Harburger, for the respondent.


This action was brought by the plaintiff, as an administratrix, to recover damages caused by the death of her intestate, alleged to have been due to the negligence of the defendant. The plaintiff moved upon her own petition, setting up her appointment as administratrix, and, amongst other things, alleging that she was a married woman and was not worth the sum of $100 besides her wearing apparel and the subject-matter of this action, and that she had no means whatever to defray the necessary expenses in the prosecution of this action.

There was no allegation whatever contained in the petition as to the condition of the estate of which she was administratrix. It is clear that, under this condition of proof, there was no evidence before the court which justified it in making the order appealed from.

Furthermore, there was nothing in the order assigning any counsel to prosecute the action as required by section 460 of the Code of Civil Procedure; nor was there any provision that such counsel should act therein without compensation as is also required by the section. In all cases where an application is made for an order admitting a party to prosecute as a poor person, it would seem to be the better practice to file the consent of the attorney assigned to prosecute without compensation, with the moving papers, and also to have a provision that he shall act without compensation incorporated in the order.

For the reasons above stated the order should be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion denied, with ten dollars costs.

BARRETT, RUMSEY, PATTERSON and O'BRIEN, JJ., concurred.

Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs.


Summaries of

DAUS v. NUSSBERGER

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jan 1, 1898
25 App. Div. 185 (N.Y. App. Div. 1898)
Case details for

DAUS v. NUSSBERGER

Case Details

Full title:ANNA DAUS, as Administratrix, etc., of EUGENE FANCHON, Deceased…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Jan 1, 1898

Citations

25 App. Div. 185 (N.Y. App. Div. 1898)
49 N.Y.S. 291

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