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Mandel v. Neuman-Geller, Ltd.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Mar 28, 1994
202 A.D.2d 647 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)

Opinion

March 28, 1994

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Weiner, J.).


Ordered that the appeal from the order is dismissed, without costs or disbursements; and it is further,

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by deleting the provision thereof which is in favor of the plaintiffs and against the defendants James Geller and Philip Neuman in the sum of $119,316.68; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements; and it is further,

Ordered that the order is modified, by deleting therefrom the provision granting that branch of the plaintiffs' motion which was for summary judgment against the defendants James Geller and Philip Neuman and substituting therefor a provision denying that branch of the motion; as so modified the order is affirmed insofar as reviewed, without costs or disbursements.

The appeal from the intermediate order must be dismissed because the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated with the entry of judgment in the action (see, Matter of Aho, 39 N.Y.2d 241, 248). The issues raised on appeal from the order are brought up for review and have been considered on the appeal from the judgment (see, CPLR 5501 [a] [1]).

The Supreme Court erred in granting summary judgment against the defendants James Geller and Philip Neuman. There is insufficient evidence in the record to find, as a matter of law, that the individual defendants knowingly caused or participated in the corporate defendant's diversion of trust assets in violation of Lien Law article 3-A (see, Ace Hardwood Flooring Co. v. Glazer, 74 A.D.2d 912; Schwadron v. Freund, 69 Misc.2d 342).

We further find that the court's denial of the appellants' cross motion to consolidate was not an improvident exercise of its discretion. Bracken, J.P., O'Brien, Pizzuto and Altman, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Mandel v. Neuman-Geller, Ltd.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Mar 28, 1994
202 A.D.2d 647 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
Case details for

Mandel v. Neuman-Geller, Ltd.

Case Details

Full title:LONNIE MANDEL, Respondent, v. NEUMAN-GELLER, LTD., et al., Defendants and…

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

Date published: Mar 28, 1994

Citations

202 A.D.2d 647 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
610 N.Y.S.2d 840

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