
    Ambrose J. McNamara, Appellant and Respondent, v. Herbert S. Powell et al., Respondents and Appellants.
    Argued January 16, 1947;
    decided May 15, 1947.
    
      
      Ambrose J. McNamara, in person, and Howard F. Mahon, Frank Keiper and Albert Averbach for plaintiff, appellant and respondent.
    
      M. William Bray, Clarence E. Williams, Bartle Gorman and George H. Kenny for defendants, respondents and appellants.
   Judgment modified by reducing the amount the defendants are directed to pay by the sum of $2,409.71, with interest of $884.73, which was allowed by the courts below as attorneys’ fees and expenses in the patent litigation (Leach Co. v. American Locomotive Co., 278 N. Y. 471; Strelitzer v. Schnaier, 135 App. Div. 384, 139 App. Div. 901, 204 N. Y. 560; see, also, Manko v. City of Buffalo, 296 N. Y. 905), and as so modified affirmed, without costs.

Concur: Loughban, Ch. J., Desmond, Thacheb, Dye and Fuld, JJ. Taking no part: Lewis and Conway, JJ.  