Ryan v Pascale
2009 NY Slip Op 00367 [58 AD3d 711]
January 20, 2009
Appellate Division, Second Department
As corrected through Wednesday, March 11, 2009


Edward Ryan et al., Respondents,
v
Philip Pascale et al.,Appellants, et al., Defendant.

[*1]Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP, Mineola, N.Y. (John M. Comiskey ofcounsel), for appellants.

Jack F. Scherer, New York, N.Y., for respondents.

In an action to recover damages for fraudulent inducement, the defendants Philip Pascale andDebra Pascale appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Woodard, J.),entered January 25, 2008, which denied that branch of their motion which was to dismiss thecomplaint insofar as asserted against them pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (1) and (7).

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs to the appellants, and that branch ofthe appellants' motion which was to dismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against thempursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (1) and (7) is granted.

The Supreme Court should have granted that branch of the appellants' motion which was todismiss the complaint insofar as asserted against them. The causes of action asserted in thecomplaint were barred by the specific disclaimer provisions contained in the contract of sale(see Danann Realty Corp. v Harris, 5 NY2d 317, 320 [1959]; Rigney v McCabe, 43 AD3d 896[2007]; Roland v McGraime, 22AD3d 824, 825 [2005]; Fabozzi vCoppa, 5 AD3d 722, 723-724 [2004]). Furthermore, the alleged misrepresentationsupon which the plaintiffs purportedly relied did not concern matters within the peculiarknowledge of the appellants (see Danann Realty Corp. v Harris, 5 NY2d at 322;Rigney v McCabe, 43 AD3d at 896-897).

We do not reach the appellants' contention concerning that branch of their motion which wasfor [*2]an award of costs pursuant to 22 NYCRR 130-1.1, as thatbranch of the motion was not addressed by the Supreme Court. Thus, it remains pending andundecided (see Magriples vTekelch, 53 AD3d 532 [2008]; Katz v Katz, 68 AD2d 536, 543 [1979]).Spolzino, J.P., Fisher, Miller and Carni, JJ., concur.


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