Matter of Sakow

Decision Date20 February 2001
Citation280 A.D.2d 378,721 N.Y.S.2d 34
CourtNew York Supreme Court — Appellate Division
PartiesIn the Matter of the Estate of MAX SAKOW, Deceased.<BR>WALTER SAKOW, Appellant;<BR>DIANA SAKOW et al., Respondents, and<BR>HARRIET SILLEN et al., Appellants.

Concur — Williams, J.P., Tom, Andrias, Lerner and Friedman, JJ.

The Surrogate properly granted the application of objectant-respondent sisters for the appointment of a temporary receiver to oversee the Bronx properties. The election of remedies doctrine did not preclude the sisters from switching to the second of the two equitable remedy options made available by the Surrogate, which would provide them with immediate tangible benefits, because requiring them, at their advanced age, to continue with the option they originally chose would have engendered a protracted accounting proceeding covering a 40-year period, and, in so doing, would have effectively deprived them of any remedy at all (see, Clark v Kirby, 243 NY 295, 303). The appointment of a receiver was otherwise warranted in light of clear and convincing evidence that objectant-appellant Walter Sakow's continued control of the Bronx properties would result in irreparable harm to the sisters' interests therein (cf., McBrien v Murphy, 156 AD2d 140).

The notices of pendency for the Bronx properties and the additional properties having expired or been vacated and the sisters having failed to seek an extension pursuant to CPLR 6513, they should not have been permitted to file new notices with respect to those properties (see, Slutsky v Blooming Grove Inn, 147 AD2d 208, 212).

Objectant-appellant's counsel's offer to produce bank accounts and tax returns related to the Bronx properties after having been notified that his client's sisters had purportedly relinquished their right to an accounting by choosing the second remedial option amounts to a waiver of objectant-appellant's claim that he should not have to produce such documents.

Reargument granted and, upon reargument, the Decision and Order of this Court entered herein on August 31, 2000 (275 AD2d 292) is hereby recalled and vacated.

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