Tarrytown v. Chacko

Decision Date12 March 2014
Citation2014 N.Y. Slip Op. 01578,115 A.D.3d 703,981 N.Y.S.2d 584
PartiesDOUBLETREE HOTEL TARRYTOWN, respondent, v. Kurien CHACKO, etc., appellant.
CourtNew York Supreme Court — Appellate Division

115 A.D.3d 703
981 N.Y.S.2d 584
2014 N.Y. Slip Op. 01578

DOUBLETREE HOTEL TARRYTOWN, respondent,
v.
Kurien CHACKO, etc., appellant.

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.

March 12, 2014.


Leonard E. Lombardi, P.C., Scarsdale, N.Y., for appellant.

Michael M. Cohen, Brooklyn, N.Y., for respondent.


In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of contract, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Walker, J.), entered June 28, 2013, which, after a hearing to determine the validity of service of process, in effect, denied that branch of his motion which was to dismiss the complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.

In reviewing a determination made by a hearing court, the power of this Court is as broad as that of the hearing court and it may render the determination it finds warranted by the facts, taking into account that, in a close case, the hearing court had the advantage of seeing and hearing the witnesses ( see Northern Westchester Professional Park Assoc. v. Town of Bedford, 60 N.Y.2d 492, 499, 470 N.Y.S.2d 350, 458 N.E.2d 809;Bartow v. Lugo, 66 A.D.3d 936, 937, 887 N.Y.S.2d 678;Mastroianni v. Rallye Glen Cove, LLC, 59 A.D.3d 686, 687, 874 N.Y.S.2d 210;Hall v. Sinclaire, 35 A.D.3d 660, 826 N.Y.S.2d 706). The plaintiff's process server, who refreshed his recollection with reliable contemporaneous records, unequivocally testified that he delivered the summons and complaint

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to the defendant. The inconsistencies between the description of the defendant and the defendant's appearance in court almost three years later, and the location as stated in the affidavit of service and the defendant's unsubstantiated allegations regarding the description of the house where he was served with process, were not significant ( see Rowlan v. Brooklyn Jewish Hosp., 100 A.D.2d 844, 845, 474 N.Y.S.2d 84;cf. Skyline Agency v. Coppotelli, Inc., 117 A.D.2d 135, 139, 502 N.Y.S.2d 479). The record in this case supports the hearing court's determination that the testimony of the process server was more credible than that of the defendant, as well as the hearing court's conclusion that the defendant was properly served with process ( see Shaw Funding, L.P. v. Samuel, 101 A.D.3d 1100, 955 N.Y.S.2d 896;King v. Gil, 69 A.D.3d 678, 891 N.Y.S.2d 655;Ahrens v. Chisena, 40 A.D.3d 787, 788, 836 N.Y.S.2d 278;Lattingtown Harbor Prop. Owners Assn.,...

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