Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. v. Van Dewater & Van Dewater, LLP

2025 NY Slip Op 03496
CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
DecidedJune 6, 2025
Docket668/24 CA 24-00012
StatusPublished

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Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. v Van Dewater & Van Dewater, LLP (2025 NY Slip Op 03496)
Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co. v Van Dewater & Van Dewater, LLP
2025 NY Slip Op 03496
Decided on June 6, 2025
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.


Decided on June 6, 2025 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Fourth Judicial Department
PRESENT: LINDLEY, J.P., CURRAN, OGDEN, NOWAK, AND KEANE, JJ.

668/24 CA 24-00012

[*1]MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY, PLAINTIFF,

v

VAN DEWATER & VAN DEWATER, LLP, ET AL., DEFENDANTS. VAN DEWATER & VAN DEWATER, LLP, JEFFREY S. BATTISTONI, ESQ., AND DANIELLE E. STRAUCH, ESQ., THIRD-PARTY PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS, THE TOWNE LAW FIRM, P.C., AND JAMES T. TOWNE, JR., ESQ., THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS. (APPEAL NO. 2.)


BARCLAY DAMON LLP, ROCHESTER (TARA J. SCIORTINO OF COUNSEL), FOR THIRD-PARTY DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS.

GORDON REES SCULLY MANSUKHANI, LLP, NEW YORK CITY (MAXINE J. NICHOLAS OF COUNSEL), FOR DEFENDANTS AND THIRD-PARTY PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS.



Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Gerald J. Greenan, III, J.), entered October 12, 2023. The order granted the motion of third-party plaintiffs to disqualify third-party defendants as counsel for plaintiff.

Now, upon reading and filing the stipulation of discontinuance signed by the attorneys for the parties on April 23, 2025,

It is hereby ORDERED that said appeal is unanimously dismissed without costs upon stipulation.

Entered: June 6, 2025

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court



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