190 Murray Street Associates, LLC v. City of Rochester

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

190 Murray Street Associates, LLC v. City of Rochester

19 A.D.3d 1116, 795 N.Y.S.2d 923, 2005 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6468

CourtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

DecidedJune 10, 2005

StatusPublished

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190 Murray Street Associates, LLC v. City of Rochester, 19 A.D.3d 1116, 795 N.Y.S.2d 923, 2005 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6468 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2005).

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Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Monroe County (David D. Egan, J.), entered December 10, 2004. The order granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously reversed on the law without costs, the motion is denied and the complaint is reinstated.

Memorandum: Plaintiff commenced this action to recover for damage to its properties allegedly caused by the collapse of a sewer line adjacent to those properties. Supreme Court erred in granting defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint as time-barred {see CPLR 3211 [a] [5]). Accepting the allegations in the complaint as true and according them the benefit of every favorable inference, as we must (see Leon v Martinez, 84 NY2d 83, 87-88 [1994]), we conclude that the action was timely commenced less than one year and 90 days after the “happening of the event upon which the*claim is based,” i.e., the collapse of the sewer line on June 1¡ 2003 (General Municipal Law § 50-i [1] [c]; cf. Nebbia v County of Monroe, 92 AD2d 724, 725 [1983], lv denied 59 NY2d 603 [1983]). Present—Pigott, Jr., PJ., Green, Gorski, Pine and Lawton, JJ.

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Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Monroe County (David D. Egan, J.), entered December 10, 2004. The order granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from be and the same hereby is unanimously reversed on the law without costs, the motion is denied and the complaint is reinstated.

Memorandum: Plaintiff commenced this action to recover for damage to its properties allegedly caused by the collapse of a sewer line adjacent to those properties. Supreme Court erred in granting defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint as time-barred {see CPLR 3211 [a] [5]). Accepting the allegations in the complaint as true and according them the benefit of every favorable inference, as we must (see Leon v Martinez, 84 NY2d 83, 87-88 [1994]), we conclude that the action was timely commenced less than one year and 90 days after the “happening of the event upon which the*claim is based,” i.e., the collapse of the sewer line on June 1¡ 2003 (General Municipal Law § 50-i [1] [c]; cf. Nebbia v County of Monroe, 92 AD2d 724, 725 [1983], lv denied 59 NY2d 603 [1983]). Present—Pigott, Jr., PJ., Green, Gorski, Pine and Lawton, JJ.

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