Esposito v. Saxon Home Realty, Inc.

In two related actions which were joined for trial, inter alia, to rescind a contract for the sale of real property on the ground of fraud in the inducement, and to recover damages for legal malpractice, the defendant in Action No. 2 Joseph Crea appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an amended judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Henry, J.), entered October 1, 1997, as dismissed his cross claim against the defendant Saxon Home Realty, Inc., in Action No. 2.

Ordered that the amended judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

It is well settled that in a real…