Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York February 11, 1997 (Nwaru v. Leeds Management Co.)

—Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Anne Tar-gum, J.), entered June 16, 1995, which, inter alia, dismissed defendants-appellants’ affirmative defenses and granted plaintiffs summary judgment on the issue of liability, unanimously modified, on the law, to reinstate the affirmative *253defense based on CPLR article 16 insofar as asserted by defendants Leeds Management Co.