Gibbons v. Groat

Appeal from an order of the County Court, Schenectady County, denying an order consolidating two actions pursuant to CPLR 601, 602. *997Respondents, attorneys at law, brought two separate actions against appellant for legal services rendered. The first action was for services in defending appellant in a divorce action, and the second for services for prosecuting a contract action for appellant. The court below found no common questions of fact or law involved in the two actions and thereupon held that respondents, if they chose not to join the two causes of action in one complaint as authorized…