Legal Opinion
Simmons v. Simmons
Civil Court of the City of New York
Decided December 17, 2003PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Charles J. Markey, J.
*537In the story of the successful movie and Broadway musical of Mel Brooks’s “The Producers,” the accumulation of disastrous choices resulted in a play becoming a smash “hit.” In the present case, the totality of the unusual circumstances and lapses, chiefly by plaintiff’s counsel, might still render a successful conclusion for the plaintiff. The final determination of whether a plaintiff who gave up his interest in a house in exchange for a mortgage note in 1993 will either get a long-awaited judgment or find that his action must be dismissed as…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Kemper v. Transamerica InsuranceCivil Court of the City of New York · 1969
- Kaminsky v. ConnollyAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1972
- Opia v. ChukwuAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2000
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