Opinion
No. 2007-03528.
June 17, 2008.
In an action, inter alia, for a judgment declaring that the defendant effected an actual, partial eviction of the plaintiff from certain premises in violation of a lease and to recover damages for trespass and injury to the premises, the plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Emerson, J.), entered April 5, 2007, which, after a nonjury trial, awarded only nominal damages for trespass in the sum of $1 and, in effect, awarded $0 damages for injury to the premises.
Rosenberg Calica Birney, LLP, Garden City, N.Y. (Robert M. Calica of counsel), for appellant.
Glynn Mercep and Purcell, LLP, Stony Brook, N.Y. (Timothy B. Glynn of counsel), for respondent.
Before: Florio, J.P., Angiolillo, Carni and Belen, JJ.
Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law, by adding a provision thereto declaring that the defendant effected an actual, partial eviction of the plaintiff from the leased premises; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs to the defendant.
The Supreme Court properly awarded only nominal damages of $1 since the plaintiff failed to establish the proper measure of its damages for actual partial eviction ( see Long Is. Airports Limousine Serv. Corp. v Northwest Airlines, 124 AD2d 711).
The plaintiffs remaining contentions are without merit. Since this is, in part, a declaratory judgment action, the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, should have included in the judgment appealed from an appropriate declaration in favor of the plaintiff ( see Lanza v Wagner, 11 NY2d 317, 334, appeal dismissed 371 US 74, cert denied 371 US 901).