Case Name: Margaret B. Hartigan, Appellant, v. Manhattan Embassy Co. et al., Respondents
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2003-06-17
Citations: 306 A.D.2d 135
Docket Number: 
Parties: Margaret B. Hartigan, Appellant, v Manhattan Embassy Co. et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 306
Pages: 135–136

Head Matter:
Margaret B. Hartigan, Appellant, v Manhattan Embassy Co. et al., Respondents.
[760 NYS2d 318]

Opinion:
—Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy Friedman, J.), entered November 25, 2002, which, upon reargument, adhered to a prior order of the same court and Justice granting defendants' motion to dismiss the complaint as barred under the doctrine of res judicata, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Inasmuch as plaintiff's present claims arise from the same transactions that were the subject of her counterclaims in the previously concluded nonpayment proceeding, they are barred under the doctrine of res judicata (see Coleman v Chaibane Props., 188 AD2d 413, 414 [1992], lv dismissed 81 NY2d 1007 [1993]). Concur — Mazzarelli, J.P., Ellerin, Williams, Lerner and Gonzalez, JJ.