Opinion
January 5, 1993
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Anita Florio, J.).
The title to the subject property was not rendered unmarketable or uninsurable by the fact that two of the four tax lots comprising the property had no access or limited access to the public street. Since the parcel was being sold as a whole, any limitation on ingress and egress onto the public street with respect to any individual tax lot was immaterial in the absence of a provision that such individual lot could be used for a particular purpose or that the parcel could be subdivided. Furthermore, counsel had both a survey and initial title report prior to the execution of the contract and thus should have known of the restrictions complained of (see, Caselli v. Messina, 148 Misc.2d 671). Accordingly, plaintiff is not entitled to a refund of the down payment as a matter of contract. Nor should plaintiff be permitted to amend the complaint to include a cause of action for fraud, since such cannot be supported (see, Levine Corp. v Gimbel Accessories, 41 A.D.2d 637, 638) in the face of the disclaimer clauses in the contract of sale (see, Superior Realty Corp. v. Cardiff Realty, 126 A.D.2d 633). Finally, defendant's cross-motion for summary judgment was not defective, based as it was on documentary evidence (see, Alvarez v. Prospect Hosp., 68 N.Y.2d 320, 325).
Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Carro, Wallach, Asch and Rubin, JJ.