Teitelbaum v. PTR Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
*255Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Barry Salman, J.), entered February 5, 2003, which granted defendants’ motion to transfer venue to Westchester County for consolidation with another action pending there, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Consolidation is mandated by judicial economy where two lawsuits are intertwined with common questions of law and fact. These two actions arose out of the same partnership agreement, the parties to each possess knowledge and information relevant to the claim in the other, and the lists of potential witnesses in the two cases are almost identical (see…
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