Opinion
August 16, 1999.
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Bellard, J.).
Ordered that the order is reversed, with one bill of costs, and the motion is denied.
The Supreme Court improvidently exercised its discretion in granting the motion for a severance as, under the circumstances of this case, separate trials before different juries would present the possibility of inconsistent verdicts. Moreover, the factual and legal questions involved in the causes of action against the defendants and third-party defendants are sufficiently related so that the interests of justice and judicial economy call for a single trial ( see, Woodhouse v. Orangetown Pediatrics, 213 A.D.2d 362; Guilford v. Netter, 179 A.D.2d 801; see also, Shanley v. Callanan Indus., 54 N.Y.2d 52, 57).
S. Miller, J. P., Sullivan, Friedmann, Luciano and Feuerstein, JJ., concur.