Harper v. Cayot Landscaping, Inc.

Full title: MADDALENA HARPER, Appellant, v. CAYOT LANDSCAPING, INC., Respondent

Court: Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Jul 7, 2004

2004 N.Y. Slip Op. 50763 (N.Y. App. Term 2004)

Opinion

2003-1424 ROC.

Decided July 7, 2004.

Appeal by plaintiff from a small claims judgment of the Justice Court, Town of Stony Point, Rockland County (H. Grune, J.), entered April 23, 2003, in favor of defendant dismissing the action.

Judgment unanimously affirmed without costs.

PRESENT: McCABE, P.J., RUDOPLH and ANGIOLILLO, JJ.

In this small claims action for damages to the plaintiff's vehicle as a result of her backing into defendant's snowplow, we find that substantial justice was done between the parties according to the rules and principles of substantive law (UJCA 1807). Accordingly, the judgment appealed from should be affirmed.