Gazda v. Kolinski

101 A.D.2d 694, 476 N.Y.S.2d 31, 1984 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 18246

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: April 12, 1984
• Status: Published

Opinion

Order and judgment unanimously modified and, as modified, affirmed, without costs, in accordance with the following memorandum: We agree that the trial court’s order compelling the individual defendants to transfer their shares ofG&K Big Boy, Inc. (G&K) to T.J.’s Big Boy, Inc. (TJ’s) constituted full and fair compensation to TJ’s. This relief, a transfer of shares, was originally requested by plaintiff, later agreed to by the individual defendants and is provided for in the second decretal paragraph of the court’s order. K In its written decision, however, the court referred to defendants’ proposed restitution as a merger and did not mention a transfer of shares. Since the first decretal paragraph approved defendants’ accounting “together with their proposed restitution” and the second decretal paragraph ordered the individual defendants to transfer their shares of G&K to TJ’s it becomes unclear, because of the court’s use in its written decision of the term merger and its omission of any reference to a transfer of shares, what it meant by the words “together with their proposed restitution” in the first decretal paragraph. Accordingly the first decretal paragraph of the court’s order is modified by striking: “together with their proposed restitution”. The second decretal paragraph adequately provides for a transfer of the individual defendants’ G&K stock to TJ’s. We have examined plaintiff’s other contentions and find them without merit. (Appeal from order and judgment of Supreme Court, Onondaga County, Shea, J. — corporate accounting.) Present — Dillon, P. J., Hancock, Jr., Callahan, Doerr and Moule, JJ.