Bennett v. Hucke
| Decision Date | 07 July 2009 |
| Docket Number | 2008-04341. |
| Citation | 2009 NY Slip Op 05736,64 A.D.3d 529,881 N.Y.S.2d 335 |
| Parties | JOSEPH BENNETT, Appellant, et al., Plaintiff, v. MICHAEL HUCKE, et al., Defendants, and ALAN KIRK et al., Respondents. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, and the respondents' motion pursuant to CPLR 3211 to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against them is denied.
As the plaintiff correctly contends, the motion of the defendants Alan Kirk, Alan H. Kirk, Inc., and Alan Kirk Custom Homes, Inc. (hereinafter collectively the Kirk defendants), pursuant to CPLR 3211 to dismiss the complaint was not made within the time period in which those defendants were required to serve an answer (see CPLR 3211 [e]). Accordingly, since no extension of time to make the motion was requested by the Kirk defendants or granted by the court (see CPLR 2004), the motion should have been denied as untimely (see Bowes v Healy, 40 AD3d 566 [2007]; Diaz v DiGiulio, 29 AD3d 623 [2006]; Continental Info. Sys. Corp. v Mutual Life Ins. Co. of N.Y., 77 AD2d 316, 318 [1980]). The Kirk defendants may pursue any appropriate relief by way of a summary judgment motion in the normal course of the litigation (see Diaz v DiGiulio, 29 AD3d at 623).
In view of the foregoing, we need not reach the parties' remaining contentions.
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