Mayes v. UVI Holdings, L. L. C.

—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered January 7, 1999, which, inter alia, granted plaintiffs summary judgment on the issue of defendant landlord’s liability under the cause of action for wrongful eviction, unanimously modified, on the law, to grant partial summary judgment on that cause of action in favor of the Mayes plaintiffs only, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.

Civil Court’s determination in the eviction proceeding that the landlord wrongfully evicted the Mayes plaintiffs collaterally estops the landlord from denying its liability to the Mayes plaintiffs…