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Performance v. Perez

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
May 26, 2011
84 A.D.3d 647 (N.Y. App. Div. 2011)

Opinion

No. 5164.

May 26, 2011.

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Howard H. Sherman, J.), entered on or about May 13, 2010, which, insofar as appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied plaintiffs application for an order pursuant to CPLR 1021 to substitute nonparty respondent Texas Southern LLC as a defendant in the action, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Law Offices of Joseph A. Altman, P.C., Bronx (Joseph A. Altman of counsel), for appellant.

DelBello Donnellan Weingarten Wise Wiederkehr, LLP, White Plains (Frank J. Haupel of counsel), for respondent.

Before: Concur — Gonzalez, P.J., Mazzarelli, Richter, Manzanet-Daniels and Román, JJ.


As nonparty respondent had no notice of the terms of a judgment against the subject property because such terms were not docketed by the County Register or the County Clerk, the IAS court properly denied plaintiffs application pursuant to CPLR 1021 to substitute nonparty respondent as a defendant in the underlying enforcement action. Moreover, even if the judgment roll is considered, nonparty respondent had no notice of the specific performance aspect of the judgment. The Bronx County Clerk docketed the judgment as a money judgment only and there is no reference in the County Clerk docket to any specific performance. As an improperly recorded judgment does not give constructive notice of the correct terms of the judgment ( see Puglisi v Belasky, 118 Misc 336, 337), we find that the motion was properly denied.


Summaries of

Performance v. Perez

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
May 26, 2011
84 A.D.3d 647 (N.Y. App. Div. 2011)
Case details for

Performance v. Perez

Case Details

Full title:PRECISION PERFORMANCE, INC., Appellant, v. MANUEL PEREZ, Also Known as…

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

Date published: May 26, 2011

Citations

84 A.D.3d 647 (N.Y. App. Div. 2011)
2011 N.Y. Slip Op. 4370
923 N.Y.S.2d 320

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