Abruzzo v. Malerba

• Decision Date: 31 October 1994
• Citation: 618 N.Y.S.2d 412,208 A.D.2d 879
• Parties: Laudwig J. ABRUZZO, et al., Appellants, v. Robert F. MALERBA, Respondent.
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

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618 N.Y.S.2d 412

208 A.D.2d 879

Laudwig J. ABRUZZO, et al., Appellants, v. Robert F. MALERBA, Respondent.

Supreme Court, Appellate Division,

Second Department.

Oct. 31, 1994.

John Braslow, North Babylon, for appellants.

Patrick J. Leddy, New York City, for respondent.

Before MANGANO, P.J., and LAWRENCE, KRAUSMAN and GOLDSTEIN, JJ.

MEMORANDUM BY THE COURT.

In an action, inter alia, for an accounting, the plaintiffs appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Newmark, J.), dated September 29, 1992, as granted the defendant's cross motion to dismiss the complaint pursuant to CPLR 3126.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

We find that the Supreme Court did not improvidently exercise its discretion in dismissing the plaintiffs' complaint pursuant to CPLR 3126. The plaintiffs exhibited willful and contumacious conduct in failing to comply with a court order for disclosure for seven years (see, Zletz v. Wetanson, 67 N.Y.2d 711, 713, 499 N.Y.S.2d 933, 490 N.E.2d 852; Polito v. DeTomaso, 208 A.D.2d 912, 618 N.Y.S.2d 575 [decided herewith]; Lobo Equities, Inc. v. North River Ins. Co., 124 A.D.2d 647, 508 N.Y.S.2d 33; Anteri v. NRS Constr. Corp., 117 A.D.2d 696, 697-698, 498 N.Y.S.2d 435; Brandi v. Chan, 151 A.D.2d 853, 854, 542 N.Y.S.2d 827; Henderson v. Stilwell, 116 A.D.2d 861, 862-863, 498 N.Y.S.2d 183).