Frisenda v. X Large Enter.

• Decision Date: 08 December 2000
• Parties: (A.D. 2 Dept. 2001) Susan Frisenda, et al., respondents-appellants, v. X Large Enterprises Inc., d/b/a Iguana Wana, appellant-respondent. 2000-00428 Argued -
• Court: New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

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720 N.Y.S.2d 187 (A.D. 2 Dept. 2001)

Susan Frisenda, et al., respondents-appellants, v. X Large Enterprises Inc., d/b/a Iguana Wana, appellant-respondent.

2000-00428

SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT

Argued - December 8, 2000

February 13, 2001

Clausen Miller, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Edward M. Kay, Steven J. Fried, Melissa A. Murphy-Petros, and Mark R. Zancolli of counsel), for appellant-respondent.

A. Joseph Giannini, New York, N.Y. (Daniel Friedman of counsel), for respondents-appellants.

LAWRENCE J. BRACKEN, ACTING P.J., CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, FRED T. SANTUCCI and ANITA R. FLORIO, JJ.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the defendant appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Barone, J.), entered December 7,1999, as (a) granted that branch of the plaintiffs' motion which was, in effect, for reargument of so much of a prior order of the same court entered August 30, 1999, as granted its motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, and (b), upon reargument, denied its motion for summary judgment, and the plaintiffs cross-appeal from so much of the same order as denied that branch of their motion which was, in effect, for reargument of stated portions of the order entered August 30, 1999.

ORDERED that the cross appeal is dismissed, as no appeal lies from an order denying reargument (see, Sallusti v Jones, 273 A.D.2d 293); and it is further,

ORDERED that the order entered December 7, 1999, is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, that branch of the plaintiffs' motion which was, in effect, for reargument of so much of the order entered August 30, 1999, as granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint is denied, and so much of the order entered August 30, 1999, as granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint is reinstated; and it is further,

ORDERED that the defendant is awarded one bill of costs.

The plaintiffs' motion, characterized as one for renewal and reargument, was not based upon new facts which were unavailable at the time of the defendant's motion for summary judgment. Therefore, the plaintiffs' motion was in fact a motion to reargue, the denial of which is not appealable (see, Sallusti v Jones, supra; Bossio v Fiorillo, 222 A.D.2d 476, 477; Grosso Moving & Packing Co. v Damens, 233 A.D.2d 128). Accordingly, the cross appeal must be...