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PETRONE v. DAVIDOFF HUTCHER & CITRON, LLP

2016-02324. Index No. 3761/15.

150 A.D.3d 776 (2017)

2017 NY Slip Op 03546

54 N.Y.S.3d 25

RICHARD PETRONE, Individually and as Custodial Parent and Legal Guardian of RICHARD PETRONE and Others, Respondent, v. DAVIDOFF HUTCHER & CITRON, LLP, Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided May 3, 2017.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The plaintiff commenced this action to recover damages for conversion. He alleged in the verified complaint that the defendant, a law firm, represented his estranged wife, nonparty Mary Petrone, in a matrimonial action. As part of that action, Mary Petrone deposited the sum of $154,735.20 into an escrow account held by the defendant. The defendant was to hold those funds "merely [as] an escrow agent...

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