In re of Ferranti

Full title: IN RE JACK FERRANTI, Petitioner-Appellant, v. NEW YORK CITY PROPERTY…

Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Apr 1, 2004

6 A.D.3d 178 (N.Y. App. Div. 2004)

773 N.Y.S.2d 876

Opinion

3282.

Decided April 1, 2004.

Judgment, Supreme Court, New York County (Kibbie Payne, J.), entered February 20, 2003, dismissing the petitions in petitioner's two consolidated proceedings, as barred by res judicata, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Joel B. Mayer, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Ronald E. Sternberg, for Respondent-Respondent.

Joel B. Mayer, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Ronald E. Sternberg, for Respondent-Respondent.

Before: Nardelli, J.P., Tom, Ellerin, Williams, Lerner, JJ.

The dismissal on statute of limitations grounds of a prior petition seeking the same relief against essentially the same parties is sufficiently close to being on the merits to bar the instant proceedings on the ground of res judicata ( see Smith v. Russell Sage Coll., 54 N.Y.2d 185, 194; Marinelli Assocs. v. Helmsey-Noyse Co., 265 A.D.2d 1, 4-5). Petitioner's argument about the court's reference to "newly discovered evidence" is entirely without merit.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.