Opinion
2014-08-27
Reported below, 120 A.D.3d 682, 991 N.Y.S.2d 324.
Motion for leave to appeal denied.
The Court of Appeals restates the rule that the denial of a motion for leave to appeal is not equivalent to an affirmance and has no precedential value ( see Matter of Marchant v. Mead–Morris Mfg. Co., 252 N.Y. 284, 297–298, 169 N.E. 386 [1929] ).