Opinion
2004-512 OR C.
Decided March 23, 2005.
Appeal by defendant from a small claims judgment of the Justice Court, Town of Newburgh, Orange County (J. Werner, J.), entered on December 9, 2003, which awarded plaintiffs the sum of $955.94.
Judgment unanimously affirmed without costs.
PRESENT: McCABE, P.J., ANGIOLILLO and COVELLO, JJ.
In this small claims action to recover, inter alia, a $2,500 security deposit, we find that the trial court properly offset various amounts therefrom representing damages that defendant sustained. Consequently, the court rendered substantial justice according to the rules and principles of substantive law (UJCA 1804, 1807; see Ross v. Friedman, 269 AD2d 584; Williams v. Roper, 269 AD2d 125, 126).