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Levine v. Yokell

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Dec 16, 1997
245 A.D.2d 138 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)

Summary

finding that a tortious interference with contract claim against landlord was properly dismissed when landlord's refusal to consent to plaintiff's application was "a contingency specifically contemplated in the contract"

Summary of this case from 2626 BWAY LLC v. BROADWAY METRO ASSO.

Opinion

December 16, 1997

Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.).


The causes of action against the cooperative for tortious interference with contract were properly dismissed, the only interference alleged being its refusal to approve plaintiff's application to purchase the subject apartment, a contingency specifically contemplated in the contract of sale. Plaintiff's fraud claims, which are based on nondisclosure of the fact that the individual defendant who had shown plaintiff the subject apartment and represented herself to be a broker was on the cooperative's board of directors, were properly dismissed in absence of a confidential relationship between the parties ( see, Moser v. Spizzirro, 31 A.D.2d 537, affd 25 N.Y.2d 941), even if materiality and the other elements of fraud be assumed.

We have considered plaintiff's other arguments and find them to be without merit.

Concur — Milonas, J. P., Rosenberger, Ellerin, Nardelli and Colabella, JJ.


Summaries of

Levine v. Yokell

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Dec 16, 1997
245 A.D.2d 138 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)

finding that a tortious interference with contract claim against landlord was properly dismissed when landlord's refusal to consent to plaintiff's application was "a contingency specifically contemplated in the contract"

Summary of this case from 2626 BWAY LLC v. BROADWAY METRO ASSO.

finding that a tortious interference with contract claim against landlord was properly dismissed when landlord's refusal to consent to plaintiff's application was "a contingency specifically contemplated in the contract"

Summary of this case from 2626 BWAY LLC v. Broadway Metro Assocs. LP

upholding the dismissal of a claim for tortious interference with a contract against a landlord who refused to consent to a sublease because the sublease contemplated an outcome where the landlord might not consent

Summary of this case from 2626 BWAY LLC v. BROADWAY METRO ASSO.

upholding the dismissal of a claim for tortious interference with a contract against a landlord who refused to consent to a sublease because the sublease contemplated an outcome where the landlord might not consent

Summary of this case from 2626 BWAY LLC v. Broadway Metro Assocs. LP
Case details for

Levine v. Yokell

Case Details

Full title:WENDY E. LEVINE, Appellant, v. LUCILLE YOKELL, Individually and as a…

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

Date published: Dec 16, 1997

Citations

245 A.D.2d 138 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)
665 N.Y.S.2d 962

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