Pellegrini v Brock
2009 NY Slip Op 06721 [65 AD3d 971]
September 29, 2009
Appellate Division, First Department
As corrected through Wednesday, November 4, 2009


Max Pellegrini et al., Appellants,
v
Kelly Brock, AlsoKnown as Kelly Brock Pellegrini, Respondent, et al., Defendant.

[*1]Riconda & Garnett LLP, Valley Stream (Michael T. Sullivan of counsel), for appellants.Kelly Brock, respondent pro se.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Harold B. Beeler, J.), entered January 12, 2009,which, insofar as appealed from as limited by the briefs, in this action where plaintiffs seek, interalia, a declaratory judgment that the monies they transferred to defendant Enrico Pellegrini anddefendant-respondent constituted a loan rather than a gift, denied plaintiffs' motion for summaryjudgment, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

"On a motion for summary judgment, the court should accept as true the evidence submittedby the opposing party" (O'Sullivan v Presbyterian Hosp. in City of N.Y. at Columbia Presbyt.Med. Ctr., 217 AD2d 98, 101 [1995]). Here, defendant-respondent submitted evidence inadmissible form which raised a triable issue of fact as to whether the money at issue was a gift ora loan, including, inter alia, an affidavit from a nonparty who said that plaintiff RobertaPellegrini had told her that plaintiffs had given defendants money to buy a house.

We have considered plaintiffs' remaining arguments and find them unavailing.Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Saxe, Moskowitz, Renwick and Richter, JJ.


NYPTI Decisions © 2026 is a project of New York Prosecutors Training Institute (NYPTI) made possible by leveraging the work we've done providing online research and tools to prosecutors.

NYPTI would like to thank New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, New York State Senate's Open Legislation Project, New York State Unified Court System, New York State Law Reporting Bureau and Free Law Project for their invaluable assistance making this project possible.

Install the free RECAP extensions to help contribute to this archive. See https://free.law/recap/ for more information.