Streets Co-Op of Rte. 2, Inc. CA2/2
After a jury awarded the plaintiff $1,002 in damages in a dispute over a residential co-op board’s election, a court awarded the plaintiff’s attorneys more than 130 times that amount in attorney’s fees. After the co-op paid $124,701.22 and later sent a check for an additional $45,291.23, plaintiff’s attorneys rejected the check because it was $887.10 short in postjudgment interest and because they wanted to apply for another $4,480 in attorney’s fees. The attorneys then sought discovery and, when it went unanswered, moved to compel a response. The co-op responded that the motion to compel was moot because the plaintiff’s daughter (who was substituted in for the plaintiff after he died) had accepted the $45,291.23 check and signed an acknowledgment of the satisfaction of the judgment. The trial court ruled that the satisfaction of judgment was invalid, and granted the motion to compel. The co-op appeals.
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