156 A.D.2d 202 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1989
Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Burton Sherman, J.), entered June 23, 1988, which, upon a directed verdict on liability in favor of plaintiffs against defendant 600 West 161st Street Corp., awarded plaintiff 3855 Broadway Laundromat, Inc. the sum of $136,390.50 and plaintiffs Sit Leung Yum and Lam Lap Wo judgment in the amount of $129,560.40, with interest and costs, unanimously affirmed, with costs and disbursements.
There is no merit to defendants’ argument that the order entered pursuant to Judiciary Law § 773 barred plaintiffs from the actual recovery of damages because plaintiffs, in this wrongful eviction action, had prevailed on a claim that defendants were in contempt of an order restraining them from