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Lerner v. Kelling

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Dec 2, 1999
266 A.D.2d 434 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)

Opinion

Submitted October 15, 1999

December 2, 1999

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of contract, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Gowan, J.), dated October 15, 1998, which denied her motion for summary judgment on the first cause of action in the complaint.

Heller, Horowitz Feit, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Stuart A. Blander of counsel), for appellant.

Frederic C. Foster, Westhampton, N.Y. (Richard W. Vandenburgh of counsel), for respondents.

CORNELIUS J. O'BRIEN, J.P., GABRIEL M. KRAUSMAN, ANITA R. FLORIO, SANDRA J. FEUERSTEIN, JJ.


DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff, a shareholder of the defendant corporation, established a prima facie case for summary judgment on the first cause of action in the complaint to recover damages for salary allegedly due to her under the parties' 1988 written agreement. The submissions by the individual defendant in opposition to the plaintiff's motion were sufficient to raise triable issues of fact with respect to, inter alia, his claim that the plaintiff was not entitled to a distribution of profits as salary because she improperly obtained funds from the corporation's line of credit. Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly denied the plaintiff's motion (see, Zuckerman v. City of New York, 49 N.Y.2d 559, [ 49 N.Y.2d 557]).

O'BRIEN, J.P., KRAUSMAN, FLORIO, and FEUERSTEIN, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Lerner v. Kelling

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Dec 2, 1999
266 A.D.2d 434 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)
Case details for

Lerner v. Kelling

Case Details

Full title:BARBARA LERNER, etc., appellant, v. FREDERICK S. KELLING, JR., et al.…

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

Date published: Dec 2, 1999

Citations

266 A.D.2d 434 (N.Y. App. Div. 1999)
698 N.Y.S.2d 527

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