Opinion
Submitted May 22, 2000.
Decided July 6, 2000.
Motion for leave to appeal dismissed upon the ground that the order sought to be appealed from does not finally determine the action within the meaning of the Constitution. The judgment affirmed by the Appellate Division purports to expressly sever a determined part of the second counterclaim from the pending portion of that counterclaim.
This Court will not give effect to a severance which splits a single cause of action (see, Burke v. Crosson, 85 N.Y.2d 10, 18 n5; Sontag v. Sontag, 66 N.Y.2d 554, 555).