Opinion
January 16, 1986
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Ulster County (Cholakis, J.).
Special Term granted summary judgment to defendant Pretsch Mainetti, one of two law firms sued by plaintiff for malpractice. Pretsch Mainetti secured a default judgment for plaintiff against a G. Thomas Rea, Jr., for $125,000. Rea then filed a bankruptcy petition in the United States Bankruptcy Court. Pretsch Mainetti referred plaintiff to defendant Chester Krom to pursue the action in Bankruptcy Court, the forum in which the alleged malpractice took place. Pretsch Mainetti, as the firm referring plaintiff to Krom, was held by Special Term not to be responsible for the subsequent malpractice allegedly perpetrated by Krom. We concur with that opinion (see, Broadway Maintenance Corp. v Tunstead Schechter, 110 A.D.2d 587).
Order affirmed, without costs. Main, J.P., Weiss, Mikoll, Yesawich, Jr., and Levine, JJ., concur.