Somma v. Wehrle

—In an action, inter alia, for specific performance of a contract for the sale of real property, the plaintiffs appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Kitson, J.), dated August 29, 1996, as, upon granting the defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, awarded the defendant costs in the sum of $3,600 and imposed sanctions upon the plaintiffs in the sum of $1,500.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

At issue on this appeal is the propriety of an award of costs and sanctions which…