Opinion
September 21, 1993
Appeal from the Supreme Court, New York County (David Saxe, J.).
In light of the separation agreement providing for termination of support and maintenance only upon plaintiff's remarriage, defendant's assertion that he saw the personal effects of a man in plaintiff's apartment, and his second hand account of an investigation conducted by an undisclosed detective at an undisclosed time, did not raise genuine issues of fact barring summary judgment. To defeat plaintiff's motion, it was incumbent upon defendant to come forward with proof of plaintiff's alleged remarriage in evidentiary form, but defendant's statements based on personal knowledge, if credited, would establish no more than cohabitation, and his statements about the claimed investigation are an amalgam of inadmissible hearsay. These deficiencies in defendant's affidavit are not remedied by his claim that the facts are in plaintiff's exclusive possession (see, Kennerly v Campbell Chain Co., 133 A.D.2d 669).
We also find that defendant's defense and counterclaim for reformation based upon mistake were properly dismissed as barred by the six-year Statute of Limitations (CPLR 213; see, Metcalf v Metcalf, 196 Misc. 842, affd 276 App. Div. 1068).
Concur — Sullivan, J.P., Carro, Ellerin, Kassal and Nardelli, JJ.