Legal Opinion
Williams v. Property Services, LLC
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided April 20, 2004PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*256Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Barry Salman, J.), entered May 27, 2003, which, to the extent appealed from, denied defendants’ motion to sever the matter into two separate actions, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
It is preferable to try related actions together, in order to avoid a waste of judicial resources and the risk of inconsistent verdicts (Rothstein v Milleridge Inn, 251 AD2d 154 [1998]). These incidents arose from a common nucleus of facts (Sichel v Community Synagogue, 256 AD2d 276 [1998]), and will require almost the same list of witnesses (Andresakis v Lynn, 236 AD2d 252…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Sichel v. Community SynagogueAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
- Rothstein v. Milleridge Inn, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
- Andresakis v. LynnAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1997
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