Opinion
April 26, 1993
Appeal from the Court of Claims (Blinder, J.).
Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
The claimant, a former inmate at the Ossining Correctional Facility, alleged that prison officials unlawfully converted his boxing program proposal and submitted it as their own. The Ossining Correctional Facility subsequently funded and adopted the boxing program submitted by the prison officials.
Even assuming that the claimant's written proposal was tangible property capable of being converted (cf., Matzan v Eastman Kodak Co., 134 A.D.2d 863, 864), the trial evidence reveals that the claimant failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence (see, 23 N.Y. Jur 2d, Conversion, § 76, at 312) any unauthorized use of his property. In any event, the claimant failed to show damages resulting from the alleged conversion of his boxing program (23 N.Y. Jur 2d, Conversion, § 82, at 318; Fantis Foods v Standard Importing Co., 49 N.Y.2d 317, 326; Hoffman v Dorner, 86 A.D.2d 651). Thompson, J.P., Rosenblatt, Miller and Pizzuto, JJ., concur.