Butler v. Primavera

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (David Saxe, J.), entered April 20, 1989, denying third-party defendant’s motion for summary dismissal of the third-party complaint, is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

On his motion for summary judgment, third-party defendant Sherwood Allen Salvan failed to meet his burden of demonstrating that defendant and third-party plaintiff Harvey Brown, a lawyer being sued by former clients for malpractice, does not have a viable claim for contribution against Salvan, who subsequently represented the client in the same matter (see, Schauer v Joyce, 54 NY2d…