205 W. 19th St. Corp. v. Plymouth Management Group, Inc.

74 A.D.3d 564, 902 N.Y.S.2d 345

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: June 15, 2010
• Status: Published

Opinion

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (O. Peter Sherwood, J.), entered February 24, 2010, which, insofar as appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendant Laura Mercier’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the third cause of action for breach of contract and the sixth cause of action for legal fees, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

The court properly found that, while Mercier did not demonstrate that a vote taken at a special shareholders’ meeting, which resulted in the passage of a resolution calling for a transfer tax, was invalid or improper, questions of fact exist in this regard, including those involving witness credibility (see e.g. Welch v Riverbay Corp., 273 AD2d 66 [2000]). Furthermore, material issues of fact must be resolved before any determination can be made regarding Mercier’s claims based on waiver and estoppel (see Fundamental Portfolio Advisors, Inc. v Tocqueville Asset Mgt., L.P., 7 NY3d 96, 105-106 [2006]). In view of the foregoing, the court properly denied Mercier’s request to dismiss the cause of action seeking legal fees. Concur—Andrias, J.P., Saxe, Sweeny, Nardelli and Catterson, JJ.