Opinion
March 8, 1999
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Nastasi, J.).
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The Supreme Court properly dismissed the plaintiff's third cause of action to recover damages for conversion as barred by the three-year Statute of Limitations as set forth in CPLR 214 (3) ( see, Gold Sun Shipping v. Ionian Transp., 245 A.D.2d 420).
We agree with the Supreme Court that plaintiff's second cause of action should also be dismissed, but for a different reason. In that cause of action, the plaintiff sought damages under a theory of unjust enrichment based upon the same allegations as those underlying the first cause of action. In both the first and second causes of action, the plaintiff alleged a default on a promissory note, which would constitute a breach of contract. Since the complaint fails to allege tort liability or a breach of duty distinct from, or in addition to, the breach of contract claim, the second cause of action should have been dismissed for this reason ( see, Layden v. Boccio, 253 A.D.2d 540; see generally, Clark-Fitzpatrick, Inc. v. Long Is. R. R. Co., 70 N.Y.2d 382).
Mangano, P. J., Santucci, Krausman and Florio, concur.