Opinion
12-06-2016
Leonard ROSENBAUM, Plaintiff–Respondent, v. Joseph ROSENBAUM, Defendant–Appellant.
Kurzman Eisenberg Corbin & Lever, LLP, White Plains (Michael H. Friedman of counsel), for appellant. Wimpfheimer & Wimpfheimer, New York (Michael C. Wimpfheimer of counsel), for respondent.
Kurzman Eisenberg Corbin & Lever, LLP, White Plains (Michael H. Friedman of counsel), for appellant. Wimpfheimer & Wimpfheimer, New York (Michael C. Wimpfheimer of counsel), for respondent.
RENWICK, J.P., SAXE, GISCHE, WEBBER, JJ.
Amended judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Charles E. Ramos, J.), entered on or about August 10, 2015, awarding plaintiff the total sum of $349,636.49, unanimously affirmed, without costs. Appeal from resettled order, same court and Justice, entered August 10, 2015, which granted plaintiff's motion and cross motion, and denied defendant's cross motion, unanimously dismissed, without costs, as subsumed in the appeal from the judgment.
Plaintiff has the burden of demonstrating by a preponderance of the credible evidence that service was properly made on defendant pursuant to CPLR 308(2) (see Navarro v. Singh, 110 A.D.3d 497, 498, 973 N.Y.S.2d 77 [1st Dept.2013] ).
The court properly concluded that defendant was served with the complaint based on the attorney's testimony that he personally went to defendant's residence and handed defendant the summons and complaint, after defendant identified himself. The court's determination, which turned on credibility, is entitled to deference (see Arrufat v. Bhikhi, 101 A.D.3d 441, 442, 954 N.Y.S.2d 538 [1st Dept.2012] ).
The court had the authority to correct the judgment to reflect the reduced ad damnum clause of the complaint because the change did not prejudice defendant or affect a substantial right (see CPLR 2001 ).
We have considered defendant's remaining arguments and find them unavailing.