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Mendoza v. Rubin

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 30, 2003
309 A.D.2d 712 (N.Y. App. Div. 2003)

Opinion

2036, 2037, 2037A

October 30, 2003.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered July 16, 2002, dismissing the complaint, and bringing up for review an order, same court and Justice, entered June 5, 2002, which, inter alia, granted defendants' motion for summary judgment, unanimously affirmed, without costs. Appeal from said order, unanimously dismissed, as subsumed in the appeal from the judgment. Appeal from order, same court and Justice, entered July 18, 2001, which denied defendants' motion to dismiss, unanimously dismissed as moot, without costs.

Jayne S. Robinson, for plaintiff-appellant.

Richard G. Menaker, for defendants-respondents.

Jayne S. Robinson, for plaintiff-respondent.

Richard G. Menaker, for defendants-appellants.

Before: Tom, J.P., Andrias, Saxe, Williams, JJ.


The physical delivery of an executed contract of sale was a condition precedent to the existence of a binding agreement for the purchase of plaintiff's cooperative apartment (see 219 Broadway Corp. v. Alexander's, Inc., 46 N.Y.2d 506, 512), and defendants did nothing to frustrate the performance of that condition; plaintiff's attorney, without legal basis, simply failed to deliver the subject documents after signing them on her client's behalf. In addition, the facts do not support the application of equitable estoppel (see Taylor v. Blaylock Partners, L.P., 240 A.D.2d 289, 290); nor do they support a finding of promissory estoppel (see Tsabbar v. Auld, 289 A.D.2d 115, lv denied 98 N.Y.2d 613).

We have considered plaintiff's other contentions and find them unavailing.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.


Summaries of

Mendoza v. Rubin

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 30, 2003
309 A.D.2d 712 (N.Y. App. Div. 2003)
Case details for

Mendoza v. Rubin

Case Details

Full title:ROBERTO G. MENDOZA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JEROME S. RUBIN, ET AL.…

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

Date published: Oct 30, 2003

Citations

309 A.D.2d 712 (N.Y. App. Div. 2003)
766 N.Y.S.2d 549

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