Fulgenzi v. Rink
| Decision Date | 28 September 1998 |
| Citation | 678 N.Y.S.2d 360,253 A.D.2d 846 |
| Parties | , 1998 N.Y. Slip Op. 8408 Michael J. FULGENZI, d/b/a MFJ Enterprises, Respondent-Appellant, v. Ralph RINK, Appellant-Respondent. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Rabin and Rabin, Tarrytown, N.Y. (Bernard Rabin of counsel), for appellant-respondent.
Norman M. Block, P.C., Hawthorne, N.Y., for respondent-appellant.
SULLIVAN, J.P., JOY, KRAUSMAN and FLORIO, JJ.
MEMORANDUM BY THE COURT.
In an action, inter alia, to recover on a promissory note and to recover rent under a lease for a certain parking lot, in which the defendant counterclaimed for a judgment declaring the rights of the parties to that parking lot, (1) the defendant appeals from stated portions of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Coppola, J.), entered April 29, 1997, which, inter alia, after a nonjury trial, (a) awarded the plaintiff damages under the promissory note in the principal amount of $37,500 and (b) did not direct the plaintiff to transfer title to the parking lot to him, and (2) the plaintiff cross-appeals from stated portions of the same judgment which, inter alia, denied his application for an award of attorney's fees and for rent due under the lease of the parking lot.
ORDERED that the judgment is modified, on the facts, by adding thereto a provision declaring that the defendant is a vendee in possession of the property set forth under the option to purchase in the lease dated April 7, 1983; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed, with costs to the plaintiff; and it is further,
ORDERED that the plaintiff, within 30 days after service upon him by the defendant of a copy of this decision and order with notice of entry together with the defendant's payment of $18,800, less any liens and encumbrances, shall deliver to the defendant the deed transferring good and marketable title to the parking lot to the defendant.
In April 1983, the plaintiff sold a restaurant to the defendant who executed a promissory note in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $85,000. At the same time, the parties entered into a lease for a parking lot near the restaurant, with the plaintiff giving the defendant an option to buy the lot. In March 1996, the plaintiff commenced the instant action seeking money owed under the promissory note and back rent under the lease.
The defendant has conceded in his brief that the action was not barred as to at least some of the payments due under the note. Thus, it is clear that the action on the promissory note was timely commenced within the six-year Statute of Limitations period generally applicable to actions upon a note (see, CPLR 213[4] ) and the only question to be determined is the amount due the plaintiff (see generally, Phoenix Acquisition Corp. v. Campcore, Inc., 81 N.Y.2d 138, 141, 596 N.Y.S.2d 752, 612 N.E.2d 1219; see also, Pagano v. Smith, 201 A.D.2d 632, 633, 608 N.Y.S.2d 268; cf., Khoury v. Alger, 174 A.D.2d 918, 571 N.Y.S.2d 829).
The evidence introduced by the defendant for the limited purpose of determining the amount he still owed on the note, i.e., a certain stipulation between the parties hereto, was sufficient to support the Supreme Court's determination that the defendant owed the plaintiff $37,500, as set forth in the judgment appealed from. The...
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