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Transland Assets, Inc. v. Davis

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
May 9, 2006
29 A.D.3d 679 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006)

Opinion

2004-09930.

May 9, 2006.

In an action, inter alia, pursuant to RPAPL article 15 to determine claims to real property, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Rosen, R.), dated July 16, 2004, as, after a nonjury trial, dismissed its causes of action, inter alia, for a judgment declaring the deed of the defendants Ralph M. Thompson, Jr., and Gessie Thompson to be null and void.

Mulholland Knapp, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Edwin M. Mulholland and Robert P. Knapp III of counsel), for appellant.

Brian R. Hoch, White Plains, N.Y., for defendant Adele E. Davis.

Before: Florio, J.P., Crane, Goldstein and Spolzino, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, without costs or disbursements.

The New York Recording Act (Real Property Law § 290 et seq.) protects a good faith purchaser for value from a prior unrecorded interest in real property provided, inter alia, that the subsequent purchaser's interest is the first to be duly recorded ( see Real Property Law § 291; Yen-Te Hsueh Chen v. Geranium Dev. Corp., 243 AD2d 708, 709; Morrocoy Mar. v. Altengarten, 120 AD2d 500; Goldstein v. Gold, 106 AD2d 100, 101-102, affd 66 NY2d 624; 11 Warren's Weed, New York Real Property, Recording §§ 1.05, 1.07 [4th ed). Here, it is undisputed that the defendants Ralph M. Thompson, Jr., and Gessie Thompson recorded their deed before the plaintiff did. As a result, the plaintiff may not invoke the protection of the New York Recording Act, regardless of whether those defendants actually paid valuable consideration for the property ( see Rivas v. McDonnell, 308 AD2d 572, 573).

The plaintiff's remaining contentions are without merit, except for its contention that it has standing to challenge the contract of sale to the Thompsons as a fraudulent conveyance.


Summaries of

Transland Assets, Inc. v. Davis

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
May 9, 2006
29 A.D.3d 679 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006)
Case details for

Transland Assets, Inc. v. Davis

Case Details

Full title:TRANSLAND ASSETS, INC., Appellant, v. ADELE E. DAVIS, Defendant, and RALPH…

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

Date published: May 9, 2006

Citations

29 A.D.3d 679 (N.Y. App. Div. 2006)
2006 N.Y. Slip Op. 3765
813 N.Y.S.2d 675

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