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Schneider Fuel Oil, Inc. v. DeGennaro

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Apr 21, 1997
238 A.D.2d 495 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)

Opinion

April 21, 1997


In an action to recover payment for goods sold and delivered and to recover payment on an account stated, the plaintiff appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Rosato, J.), entered May 24, 1996, as denied its motion for summary judgment.

Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment is granted, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Westchester County, for further proceedings.

The computer records supplied by the plaintiff were sufficient to support the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment (see, Guth Realty v. Gingold, 34 N.Y.2d 440, 451-452; Matter of Thomma, 232 A.D.2d 422). Thus, the plaintiff met its initial burden of submitting evidentiary proof in admissible form that the defendant received and retained the plaintiff's accounts without objection and made partial payments on those accounts. The defendant failed to establish a triable issue of fact as to whether certain corporate entities were responsible for the balance due to the plaintiff. By not denying the statements made in the affidavit of the plaintiff's president in support of the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment, the defendant has admitted that all invoices and account statements issued by the plaintiff were issued in the defendant's name personally, not in those of any corporations, and that he never informed the plaintiff that the corporations were responsible for the billed amounts (see, Kuehne Nagel v. Baiden, 36 N.Y.2d 539, 544). Accordingly, the plaintiff is entitled to summary judgment on its cause of action for an account stated (see, PPG Indus. v. A.G.P. Sys., 235 A.D.2d 979; King Petroleum Prods. v. Geiger, 231 A.D.2d 906). Rosenblatt, J.P., Ritter, Thompson and Sullivan, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Schneider Fuel Oil, Inc. v. DeGennaro

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Apr 21, 1997
238 A.D.2d 495 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)
Case details for

Schneider Fuel Oil, Inc. v. DeGennaro

Case Details

Full title:SCHNEIDER FUEL OIL, INC., Appellant, v. PETER DEGENNARO, Respondent

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

Date published: Apr 21, 1997

Citations

238 A.D.2d 495 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)
656 N.Y.S.2d 668

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