Vaccaro v. Estate of Gorovoy

STERN, J.A.D.

This is an appeal from the grant of summary judgment dismissing plaintiffs’ complaint seeking the recovery of attorney’s fees. Because defendants’ cross motion for summary judgment was granted, we must accept plaintiffs’ contentions that they were retained by defendants to file a zoning application designed to obtain approval for higher density residential construction on Quad Associates’ sixty-two acre property and that the parties orally agreed that a contingency fee would be paid in the amount of “five percent of any increase in the value of the land that would result from a…