Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 18, 2000 (Pittoni v. Boland)

In an action, inter alia, for an accounting, the nonparty Referee appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (DeMaro, J.), entered October 5, 1999, which, among *397other things, denied his application for a fee calculated at the rate of $300 per hour for his services and awarded him the statutory amount of $50 per day.