Opinion
05-04-2016
Arnold GLEITMAN, et al., appellants, v. SILVER GATE OWNERS CORP., et al., respondents.
Howard M. File, Esq., P.C., Staten Island, N.Y. (Andrew Rafter of counsel), for appellant. Lori D. Fishman, Tarrytown, N.Y. (George R. Dieter of counsel), for respondents.
Howard M. File, Esq., P.C., Staten Island, N.Y. (Andrew Rafter of counsel), for appellant.
Lori D. Fishman, Tarrytown, N.Y. (George R. Dieter of counsel), for respondents.
Opinion In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for wrongful eviction, conversion, and trespass, and for a judgment declaring that the current board of directors of the defendant Silver Gate Owners Corp. is not legally constituted, the plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Dufficy, J.), entered October 6, 2015, which granted that branch of the defendants' motion which was pursuant to CPLR 507 to transfer the venue of the action from Queens County to Sullivan County.
ORDERED that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, that branch of the defendants' motion which was pursuant to CPLR 507 to transfer the venue of the action from Queens County to Sullivan County is denied, and the Clerk of the Supreme Court, Sullivan County, is directed to deliver to the Clerk of the Supreme Court, Queens County, all papers filed in this action and certified copies of all minutes and entries (see CPLR 511[d] ).
Contrary to the defendants' contention, the judgment in this action would not affect title to, or the possession, use, or enjoyment of, real property, inasmuch as the plaintiffs seek only damages and a judgment declaring that the current board of directors of the defendant Silver Gate Owners Corp. is not legally constituted (see CPLR 507 ; Carlton Group, Ltd. v. Property Mkts. Group, Inc., 134 A.D.3d 1018, 1020, 21 N.Y.S.3d 704 ; State of New York v. Slezak Petroleum Prods., Inc., 78 A.D.3d 1288, 1289, 910 N.Y.S.2d 268 ; Zahner v. Uram, 199 A.D.2d 1048, 605 N.Y.S.2d 611 ; Weinstein Enters. v. Great Atl. & Pac. Tea Co., 112 A.D.2d 219, 220, 491 N.Y.S.2d 436 ).
In light of this determination, the plaintiffs' remaining contentions have been rendered academic.
Accordingly, the Supreme Court should have denied that branch of the defendants' motion which was pursuant to CPLR 507 to transfer the venue of the action from Queens County to Sullivan County.
LEVENTHAL, J.P., HALL, HINDS–RADIX and LaSALLE, JJ., concur.