Robertson v. Wendell
Citations
- 6 Paige Ch. 320
- 1837 N.Y. LEXIS 237
- 1837 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 43
Syllabus
<p>Wheré securities belonging to a very aged and infirm man were placed by him in the hands of tbe defendant for safe keeping, and to receive the monies thereon as they were voluntary paid for the complainant’s use, and the defendant had been guilty of no negligence or default except a neglect to answer a letter of the complainant’s solicitor, requesting a statement of the fund; Held, that there was no reason for charging the defendant with the costs of the suit for the recovery of the securities in his hands.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- determining, on a motion for summary judgment, that an attorney’s failure to raise an affirmative defense was not the proximate cause of the plaintiff’s damage because the plaintiff himself was “sophisticated” and “impose[d] a strategic decision on counsel”
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