Cor Rte. 5 Co., LLC v Saracene

2009 NY Slip Op 00862 [59 AD3d 1006]

February 6, 2009

Appellate Division, Fourth Department

As corrected through Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Cor Route 5 Company, LLC, Appellant, v Alfred Saracene,Respondent.

—[*1]Mannion & Copani, Syracuse (Ryan L. Abel of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Melvin & Melvin, PLLC, Syracuse (William J. Leberman of counsel), fordefendant-respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Onondaga County (James P. Murphy, J.),entered October 24, 2007. The order, among other things, denied plaintiff's motion for summaryjudgment in lieu of complaint.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum: Supreme Court properly denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment inlieu of complaint pursuant to CPLR 3213 seeking to recover the amount due on a promissorynote executed by defendant. Although plaintiff met its initial burden by submitting the note andevidence of defendant's default (see LaMar v Vasile [appeal No. 4], 49 AD3d 1218[2008]; Di Marco v Bombard Car Co.,Inc., 11 AD3d 960 [2004]), defendant raised a triable issue of fact with respect to hisdefense of contract modification (see generally Rose v Spa Realty Assoc., 42 NY2d 338,343 [1977]; Ford Motor Credit Co. v Sawdey, 286 AD2d 972, 973 [2001]).Present—Hurlbutt, J.P., Martoche, Smith, Centra and Peradotto, JJ.