Wilkerson v. Buonomo

In an action to recover damages based on legal malpractice and fraud, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Ruskin, J.), entered July 9, 1991, which denied her motion for an extension of time for the completion of discovery, and granted the defendants’ cross motion for summary judgment.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with one bill of costs to the respondents Buonomo and Thaler and Robert Thaler.

To obtain summary judgment the movant must establish the cause of action or defense sufficiently to warrant the court in granting judgment as a matter of law…