Cooke v. Silijkovic

58 A.D.3d 667, 870 N.Y.S.2d 793

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: January 20, 2009
• Status: Published

Opinion

In an action, inter alia, pursuant to RPAPL article 15 to determine title to real property, the plaintiffs appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Flaherty, J.), dated February 4, 2008, as denied, without prejudice to renew, those branches of their motion which were to dismiss the affirmative defenses of lack of privity and lack of consideration asserted in the answer of the defendant Aurel Rosu, also known as Rosu Aurel.

Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, and those branches of the motion which were to dismiss the affirmative defenses of lack of privity and lack of consideration asserted in the answer of the defendant Aurel Rosu, also known as Rosu Aurel, are granted.

Since lack of privity and lack of consideration do not constitute cognizable defenses to the causes of action asserted against the defendant Aurel Rosu, also known as Rosu Aurel, the Supreme Court erred in denying those branches of the plaintiffs’ motion which were to dismiss those affirmative defenses. Skelos, J.R, Fisher, Miller and Garni, JJ., concur.