Opinion
No. CA 07-01433.
February 28, 2008.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Wayne County (Dennis M. Kehoe, A.J.), entered April 3, 2007 in a proceeding pursuant to RPTL article 7. The judgment granted the motion of respondents to dismiss the petition.
ARCHER GREINER, P.C., PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (JEFFREY M. GRADONE OF COUNSEL), FOR PETITIONER-APPELLANT.
ANTHONY J. VILLANI, P.C., LYONS (MARY KATHERINE VILLANI OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENTS-RESPONDENTS.
Present: Gorski, J.P., Martoche, Smith, Centra and Green, JJ.
It is hereby ordered that the judgment so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.
Memorandum: Supreme Court properly granted respondents' motion to dismiss the petition in this proceeding pursuant to RPTL article 7 based upon petitioner's failure to "specify the time and place of the hearing on the petition" in the notice of petition (CPLR 403 [a]). "[T]he filing and service of a notice of petition lacking a return date is 'jurisdictionally defective'" ( Matter of Oates v Village of Watkins Glen, 290 AD2d 758, 759; see Matter of Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. v Town of Tonawanda Assessor, 309 AD2d 1251).
[ See 2007 NY Slip Op 31750(U).]