Wilcox Dev. Corp. v Thyssenkrupp El. Corp., 2022 NY Slip Op 06285 [210 AD3d 826]

November 9, 2022

Appellate Division, Second Department

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Wilcox Development Corp., Appellant,

v

Thyssenkrupp Elevator Corporation, Respondent.

Gartner + Bloom, P.C., New York, NY (Narriman Subrati of counsel), for appellant.

Kaufman Dolowich Voluck, LLP, White Plains, NY (Melissa C. Cartaya of counsel), for respondent.

In an action, inter alia, for contractual and common-law indemnification, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Francois A. Rivera, J.), dated February 4, 2021. The order denied the plaintiff’s motion to vacate so much of a prior order of the same court dated August 9, 2019, as stayed all proceedings in this action pending determination of an action entitled Caracciolo v SHS Ralph, LLC , pending in the Supreme Court, Kings County, under index No. 512132/16.

Ordered that the order dated February 4, 2021, is affirmed, with costs.

Under the circumstances of this case, and in light of the goals of avoiding inconsistent adjudications and preserving judicial resources, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the plaintiff’s motion to vacate so much of a prior order of the same court dated August 9, 2019, as stayed all proceedings in this action pending determination of an action entitled Caracciolo v SHS Ralph, LLC , pending in the Supreme Court, Kings County, under index No. 512132/16 ( see CPLR 2201; Matter of Hersh , 198 AD3d 773 , 775 [2021]; Chaplin v National Grid , 171 AD3d 691 , 692 [2019]; HSBC Bank, USA v Despot , 130 AD3d 783 , 784 [2015]; Morreale v Morreale , 84 AD3d 1187 , 1188 [2011]). Barros, J.P., Zayas, Ford and Taylor, JJ., concur..