What Cheer Realty Co. v. Hashmall

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Cahn, J.), entered December 16, 1980, which, to the extent appealed from, granted the motion of defendants-respondents for summary judgment dismissing the third (fraud) and fourth (abuse of process) causes of action, unanimously modified, on the law, motion denied as to the fourth cause of action, which is reinstated, and order otherwise affirmed, without costs. This litigation arose out of a landlord-tenant dispute in which appellant (landlord) commenced a summary proceeding against respondent Hashmall (tenant), an attorney. While this proceeding was…