L&L Painting Co. v. City of New York

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York

L&L Painting Co. v. City of New York

69 A.D.3d 517, 893 N.Y.2d 54

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

DecidedJanuary 26, 2010

StatusPublished

Cited by2 cases

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L&L Painting Co. v. City of New York, 69 A.D.3d 517, 893 N.Y.2d 54 (N.Y. Ct. App. 2010).

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The CDRB correctly found that under the contract it is petitioner’s absolute obligation to protect its work against, inter alia, fire damage and to replace or repair the work in the event of such damage. Therefore, its determination that the work performed by petitioner in the aftermath of the fire was not extra work under the contract for which petitioner was entitled to be compensated was rationally based, was not arbitrary and [518]*518capricious, and was not affected by an error of law (see Matter of Weeks Mar. v City of New York, 291 AD2d 277 [2002], lv denied 99 NY2d 505 [2003]).

Petitioner’s contractual obligation is not affected by the issue of causation, which in any event was not within the jurisdiction of the CDRB and was not decided by the CDRB. Nor is there is evidence that the City frustrated petitioner’s performance of the contract.

Petitioner’s argument that General Obligations Law § 5-322.1 renders the above-cited “absolute obligation” clause unenforceable is without merit. Concur—Tom, J.P., Saxe, Nardelli, Renwick and Freedman, JJ.

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The CDRB correctly found that under the contract it is petitioner’s absolute obligation to protect its work against, inter alia, fire damage and to replace or repair the work in the event of such damage. Therefore, its determination that the work performed by petitioner in the aftermath of the fire was not extra work under the contract for which petitioner was entitled to be compensated was rationally based, was not arbitrary and [518]*518capricious, and was not affected by an error of law (see Matter of Weeks Mar. v City of New York, 291 AD2d 277 [2002], lv denied 99 NY2d 505 [2003]).

Petitioner’s contractual obligation is not affected by the issue of causation, which in any event was not within the jurisdiction of the CDRB and was not decided by the CDRB. Nor is there is evidence that the City frustrated petitioner’s performance of the contract.

Petitioner’s argument that General Obligations Law § 5-322.1 renders the above-cited “absolute obligation” clause unenforceable is without merit. Concur—Tom, J.P., Saxe, Nardelli, Renwick and Freedman, JJ.

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