January 20, 1987 Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Scholnick, J.). Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, the plaintiffs' cross motion to compel United to submit to an examination before trial is denied as academic, and the complaint is dismissed as against United. It is well settled that on a motion for summary judgment, the court's function is issue finding rather than issue determination (see, e.g., Sillman v. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
November 8, 1990 Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County, William Davis, J. Dennis A. Durkin, III, of counsel (Durkin Durkin, attorneys), for appellants. Russel H. Beatie, Jr., of counsel, pro se (Samuel J. Abate, Jr., with him on the brief; Brown Wood, attorneys), for Russel H. Beatie, Jr., respondent. ASCH, J. After the death of her husband, inventor Charles DeLong, defendant Zofia Banszky DeLong, sought to recover the rights to use and commercialize certain patents in which George Erion
August 25, 2005. Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Leland DeGrasse, J.), entered August 4, 2004, awarding plaintiff the total amount of $282,984.64 as against defendant HBS Ltd., bringing up for review an order, same court and Justice, entered November 1, 2004, which, inter alia, granted defendants' motion for reargument to the extent that it adhered to so much of its prior order, entered July 26, 2004, as granted plaintiff's motion for summary judgment against HBS, unanimously reversed,
No. 237, Docket 21668. Argued June 6, 1950. Decided July 5, 1950. Isidor Unger, New York City, for appellant. Charles L. Kahn, New York City, for appellee. Before AUGUSTUS N. HAND, CLARK and FRANK, Circuit Judges. AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge. The plaintiff Greenhut brought a suit against the defendant Merriam in the New York Supreme Court which was removed to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. This suit was brought by Charles L. Kahn, as attorney for Greenhut