Opinion
5593
December 13, 2001.
Appeal from order, Supreme Court, New York County (Helen Freedman, J.), entered on or about April 13, 2001, which, inter alia, granted plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment upon its cause of action for an accounting and directed defendants to "provide an accounting for any periods which defendants have kept records with respect to their management of the Premises from 1967 through 1998," unanimously dismissed, without costs.
Neal Schwarzfeld, for plaintiff-appellant.
William R. Kohler, for defendants-respondents.
Before: Wallach, J.P., Lerner, Rubin, Buckley, Friedman, JJ.
Plaintiff's appeal is evidently premised upon the misconception that the appealed from order limits in some way the period covered by the accounting to six years from the commencement of this action. This is not the case inasmuch as the motion court expressly directed that the accounting is to cover "any periods [for] which defendants have kept records with respect to their management of [plaintiff's] Premises from 1967 through 1998" (emphasis added). Accordingly, since plaintiff is not aggrieved in the manner claimed by the order from which it purports to appeal, it is not a permissible appellant and its appeal must be dismissed (CPLR 5511).
Defendants' contention that the scope of the ordered accounting should be limited to the aforementioned six-year period, is not properly before us, defendants having taken no appeal from the motion court's order. Were the issue properly before us, however, we would find that the motion court correctly determined the temporal scope of the fiduciary accounting due from defendants (see, Matter of Zilkha, 174 A.D.2d 331, 334).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.