Legal Opinion
Law Firm of Joel R. Brandes, P. C. v. Ferraro
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided January 19, 1999PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—In an action to recover damages for breach of contract, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Driscoll, J.), dated August 13, 1997, which granted the defendant’s motion to vacate a judgment of the same court, entered upon her default in answering the complaint, to transfer the action to the Supreme Court, Westchester County, for consolidation with a pending application to fix a charging lien in an action entitled Ferraro v Ferraro, under Index No. 3270/94, and, in effect, to reduce the plaintiff’s ad damnum clause from the sum of $355,159.85 to the sum of…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- Chemical Bank v. VazquezAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1996
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