Augsbury v. Adams

Cross appeals from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Crangle, J.), entered April 20, 1984 in St. Lawrence County, which, inter alia, granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing plaintiffs’ second cause of action and denied defendants’ cross motion for sanctions and costs in defeating plaintiffs’ motion for an attachment of defendants’ property.

During the period January through March 2, 1979, plaintiffs purchased from defendant Charles Adams Importers, Ltd., for $525,000 a “whole and complete collection of imported jade objects” which plaintiffs allege that…