Goldberg v. Aronowsky

248 A.D. 915, 290 N.Y.S. 777, 1936 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8060

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: October 30, 1936
• Status: Published

Opinion

In an action in equity to restrain the enforcement of a judgment in a Municipal Court and also the enforcement of a contempt order of the City Court and to recover damages, order granting defendants’ motion to dismiss the complaint upon the ground that it fails to state a cause of action reversed upon the law, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs, with leave to answer within ten days from the entry of the order hereon. In out opinion, the complaint states a good cause of action to restrain the corporate defendant from enforcing the judgment and order in question upon the ground that, by reason of matters arising since the entry of such judgment and order, the enforcement thereof has become inequitable. The failure of that defendant to resell the personal property in question, after retaking possession thereof, within the time prescribed by section 79 of the Personal Property Law, discharged plaintiffs from any obligation under the conditional sales contract, pursuant to section 80-e of the same law, and it would, therefore, be inequitable to permit the corporate defendant to hold and retain the personal property and also to enforce the judgment for the purchase price thereof. Lazansky, P. J., Young, Hagarty, Adel and Taylor, JJ., concur.