Investors Special Risk Ins. Co. v. Smith

Full title: INVESTORS SPECIAL RISK INS. CO., Appellant-Respondent, v. JOHN SMITH et…

Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department

Date published: Sep 30, 1994

207 A.D.2d 990 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)

617 N.Y.S.2d 689

Opinion

September 30, 1994

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Erie County, Wolf, Jr., J.

Present — Green, J.P., Balio, Wesley, Callahan and Boehm, JJ.

Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Supreme Court properly denied plaintiff's motion and defendants' cross motion for summary judgment. The proof fails to establish, as a matter of law, whether defendants are liable to pay past-due premiums on the policies issued by plaintiff (cf., Home Indem. Co. v. Castel Constr., 128 Misc.2d 1026). Further, defendants did not meet their burden of demonstrating that plaintiff lacks capacity to maintain this action because of Business Corporation Law § 1312 (a) (see, Interline Furniture v Hodor Indus. Corp., 140 A.D.2d 307; Alicanto, S.A. v. Woolverton, 129 A.D.2d 601; Von Arx, A.G. v. Breitenstein, 52 A.D.2d 1049, affd 41 N.Y.2d 958).