McMahan v. Perry

McMahan v Perry (2018 NY Slip Op 06239)
McMahan v Perry
2018 NY Slip Op 06239
Decided on September 26, 2018
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.


Decided on September 26, 2018 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
REINALDO E. RIVERA, J.P.
SHERI S. ROMAN
SYLVIA O. HINDS-RADIX
LINDA CHRISTOPHER, JJ.

2017-01572
(Index No. 66190/16)

[*1]Elena McMahan, appellant,

v

Susie McMahan Perry, also known as Leslie Susan Perry, as personal representative of the estate of David Bruce McMahan, respondent. Law Office of Yonatan S. Levoritz, P.C., Brooklyn, NY, for appellant.




Belowich & Walsh LLP, White Plains, NY (Brian T. Belowich and Kerry Ford Cunningham of counsel), for respondent.



DECISION & ORDER

In an action for a declaratory judgment, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Terry Jane Ruderman, J.), dated February 6, 2017. The order, insofar as appealed from, granted the defendant's motion pursuant to CPLR 3211(a) to dismiss the complaint.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

Under the circumstances of this case, the Supreme Court properly granted the defendant's motion pursuant to CPLR 3211(a) to dismiss the complaint (see generally Matter of Morgenthau v Erlbaum , 59 NY2d 143, 148).

RIVERA, J.P., ROMAN, HINDS-RADIX and CHRISTOPHER, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court