Blandford Land Clearing Corp. v. City of New York

—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of contract, the plaintiff appeals from (1) an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Steinhardt, J.), dated December 9, 1998, which granted the motion of .the defendant New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation for leave to amend its answer to assert the affirmative defenses of res judicata and collateral estoppel and for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against it based on those defenses, and (2) an order of the same court, dated August 10, 1999, which granted that branch of the motion of the…